Dictionary Definition
loaded adj
1 filled with a great quantity; "a tray loaded
with dishes"; "table laden with food"; "`ladened' is not current
usage" [syn: laden,
ladened]
2 (of weapons) charged with ammunition; "a loaded
gun" [ant: unloaded]
3 (of statements or questions) charged with
associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence;
"a loaded question"
4 having an abundant supply of money or
possessions of value; "an affluent banker"; "a speculator flush
with cash"; "not merely rich but loaded"; "moneyed aristocrats";
"wealthy corporations" [syn: affluent, flush, moneyed, wealthy]
5 very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk,
blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, potty, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tiddly, tiddley, tight, tipsy, wet]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Adjective
loaded- Burdened by some
heavy load.
- Let's leave the TV; the car is loaded already.
- In the context of "of a projectile weapon": Charged with
ammunition.
- No funny business; this heater's loaded!
- Possessing great wealth.
- He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded.
- Drunk.
- By the end of the evening, the guests at the wedding reception were really loaded.
- Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of
the three bases.
- It's bottom of the ninth, the bases are loaded and there are two outs.
- In the context of "gaming": Of a die or dice, biased to produce predictable
throws.
- He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.
- In the context of "of a question": Designed to produce a
predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
- That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.
- In the context of "of a word or phrase": Having strong connotations that colour the
literal meaning and are likely to provoke an emotional response.
Sometimes used loosely to describe a word that simply has many
different meanings.
- "Ignorant" is a loaded word, often implying lack of intelligence rather than just lack of knowledge.
- In the context of "of an item offered for sale, especially an
automobile": Equipped with numerous options; deluxe.
- She went all out; her new car is loaded.
Related terms
Translations
charged with ammunition
having wealth
- Finnish: rikas
- Greek: ματσωμένος
drunk
Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to
lay a trap
- Finnish: johdatteleva
Extensive Definition
Loaded may refer to:
In music:
- Loaded
(album), by The Velvet Underground
- Loaded: Fully Loaded Edition, an expanded re-release
- "Loaded" (song), by Primal Scream
- "Loaded" (Deacon Blue song)
- Loaded Records, a record label
- Loaded (band), an american rock band
In other uses:
- Loaded (magazine), a British men's magazine
- Loaded (video game), a shooting game
- Loaded (Fuse TV series), a music-video program
See also
- Loaded language
- Loader (disambiguation)
- Load (disambiguation)
loaded in Swedish: Loaded
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abounding in riches, afflicted, affluent, all ready, all set,
armed, armed and ready,
bent, big-rich, boiled, bombed, booted and spurred,
boozy, briefed, brimful, brimming, burdened, canned, charged, chock-full, climacteric, coached, cocked, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk,
comfortable,
crammed, critical, crocked, crocko, crowded, crucial, cumbered, decisive, devious, disguised, disgustingly rich,
drunk, elevated, emergent, encumbered, equipped, exigent, familiarized, fat, flush, fraught, freighted, fried, frightfully rich, fuddled, full-charged,
full-fraught, good and ready, groomed, half-seas over,
hampered, heavy-laden,
high, illuminated, in arms, in
battle array, in funds, in readiness, in the money, in the saddle,
independent,
independently rich, independently wealthy, inebriated, informed, insidious, jam-packed,
jammed, kairotic, laden, lit, lit up, loaded for bear,
lubricated, lushy, luxurious, made of money,
manipulative,
mature, mobilized, moneyed, muddled, muzzy, oiled, on the mark, oofy, oppressed, opulent, organized, overburdened, overcharged, overfraught, overfreighted, overladen, overloaded, overtaxed, overweighted, overwhelmed, packed, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pivotal, pixilated, planned, plastered, polluted, potted, prearranged, pregnant, prejudiced, prejudicial, prepared, prepared and ready,
prepped, primed, prosperous, provided, provided for, psyched
up, raddled, ready, ready for anything,
rich, rich as Croesus,
ripe, rolling in money,
saddled, set, shellacked, skunk-drunk,
smashed, soaked, soused, squiffy, stewed, stinko, stuffed, supercharged, swacked, tanked, taxed, tight, trap, tricky, up in arms, vigilant, wallowing in wealth,
warm, wealthy, weighted, weighted down, well
provided for, well-fixed, well-heeled, well-off, well-prepared,
well-to-do