loaded
IPA: ɫˈoʊdʌd
adjective
- Burdened by some heavy load; packed.
- (of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber.
- (colloquial) Possessing great wealth.
- (slang) Drunk.
- (baseball) Pertaining to a situation where there is a runner at each of the three bases.
- (dice games, also figurative) Of a die or dice: weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.
- (of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.
- (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.
- (of an item offered for sale, especially an automobile) Equipped with numerous options.
- (food, colloquial) Covered with a topping or toppings.
- Weighted with lead or similar.
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Examples of "loaded" in Sentences
- “You serious?” one of the men asked, his expression loaded with doubt.
- For a long moment, he watched her, his expression loaded with hostility.
- The word loaded, as it has always been between the two of us, as writers.
- The man in the story is said to be "occupied" by a demon, a word loaded with meaning both then and now, especially among people whose land was under foreign occupation.
- Rationalizing a term loaded with potential meanings or embracing it wholeheartedly suggests that the comfortable members of the majority group within the province are largely blind to the implications for society as a whole.
- Eyck in the National Gallery all the brilliant lights are loaded; mere white, Mr. Eastlake himself admits, was always so; and we believe that the flesh-color and carnations are painted with color as _opaque_ as the white head-dress, but fail of brilliancy from not being _loaded enough_; the white ground beneath being utterly unable to add to the power of such tints, while its effect on more subdued tones depended in great measure on its receiving a transparent coat of warm color first.
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