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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOADED, pp.
1. Charged with a load or cargo; having a burden; freighted, as a ship; having a charge of powder, or powder and shot, as a gun.
2. Burdened with any thing oppressive; as loaded with cares, with guilt or shame.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: filled with a great quantity; "a tray loaded with dishes"; "table laden with food"; "`ladened' is not current usage" [syn: laden, loaded, 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, loaded, moneyed, wealthy]
5: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1886 1. slang high 12b 2. having a large amount of money 3. a. equipped with an abundance of options <bought a fully loaded car> b. staffed with excellent players <a loaded basketball team>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 bearing or carrying a load. 2 sl. a wealthy. b drunk. c US drugged. 3 (of dice etc.) weighted or given a bias. 4 (of a question or statement) charged with some hidden or improper implication.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Load Load, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Loaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Loading. Loaden is obsolete, and laden belongs to lade.] 1. To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart; to charge with a load, as a gun; to furnish with a lading or cargo, as a ship; hence, to add weight to, so as to oppress or embarrass; to heap upon. I strive all in vain to load the cart. --Gascoigne. I have loaden me with many spoils. --Shak. Those honors deep and broad, wherewith Your majesty loads our house. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A loaded question or word has more meaning or purpose than it appears to have, because the person who uses it hopes it will cause people to respond in a particular way. That's a loaded question. ...the loaded word 'sexist'. ADJ 2. If something is loaded with a particular characteristic, it has that characteristic to a very great degree. The President's visit is loaded with symbolic significance... The phrase is loaded with irony. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, usu ADJ with n 3. If you say that something is loaded in favour of someone, you mean it works unfairly to their advantage. If you say it is loaded against them, you mean it works unfairly to their disadvantage. The press is loaded in favour of this present government... The article was heavily loaded against Morrissey. = biased ADJ: usu v-link ADJ in favour of/against n [disapproval]

Moby Thesaurus

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