Synonyms of loaded

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adjective

ˈlō-dəd 

1

as in filled

containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible

the department stores were loaded with goods for the holiday shopping season

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filled
• packed
• bursting
• jammed
• full
• stuffed
• crammed
• crowded
• brimming
• chock-full
• brimful
• chockful
• jam-packed
• chockablock
• overloaded
• fat
• overflowing
• overstuffed
• overfilled
• overladen
• overcrowded
• overfull
• replete
• fraught
• rife
• swarming
• teeming
• abounding
• flush

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• empty
• devoid
• blank
• bare
• vacant
• void
• short
• insufficient
• inadequate
• incomplete
• stark
• wanting
• deficient
• depleted
• drained
• shy
• shortish
• exhausted

2

as in rich

having goods, property, or money in abundance

the guy in the fancy foreign sports car obviously was loaded

Synonyms & Similar Words

• rich
• wealthy
• affluent
• moneyed
• successful
• monied
• in the chips
• opulent
• well-to-do
• well-endowed
• flush
• fat
• comfortable
• well-heeled
• prosperous
• fat-cat
• deep-pocketed
• well-off
• well-fixed
• substantial
• thriving
• silk-stocking
• propertied
• privileged
• prospering
• better-off
• flourishing
• blessed
• advantaged
• blest

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• poor
• impoverished
• indigent
• needy
• deprived
• penniless
• destitute
• impecunious
• penurious
• indebted
• disadvantaged
• bankrupt
• broke
• ruined
• reduced
• pinched
• underprivileged
• insolvent
• short
• depressed
• poverty-stricken
• unaffluent
• low
• hand-to-mouth
• straitened
• pauperized
• beggared
• bankrupted
• skint

3

as in drunk

slang being under the influence of alcohol

the departing party guest was loaded, so we held his car keys until he had sobered up

Synonyms & Similar Words

• drunk
• fried
• drunken
• wet
• wasted
• impaired
• bombed
• plastered
• gassed
• lit
• ripped
• pickled
• blind
• looped
• smashed
• stewed
• blasted
• juiced
• hammered
• under the influence
• potted
• three sheets to the wind
• soused
• sloshed
• crocked
• intoxicated
• tanked
• three sheets in the wind
• tipsy
• canned
• inebriated
• blitzed
• under the weather
• squiffy
• besotted
• stiff
• oiled
• stinking
• stoned
• boozy
• squiffed
• lit up
• high
• tight
• sozzled
• wiped out
• in the bag
• cockeyed
• blotto
• inebriate
• tiddly
• alcoholic
• sottish
• pie-eyed
• in one's cups
• strung out
• dissipated
• maudlin
• befuddled
• stupefied
• rocky
• debauched
• beery
• dopey
• crapulous
• dissolute
• dopy
• bleary-eyed
• dipsomaniacal
• bibulous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• dry
• sober
• temperate
• steady
• cool
• level
• abstemious
• abstinent
• teetotal
• clearheaded

4

as in ripped

slang being under the influence of a recreational drug

wasted his life getting loaded and watching TV all day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ripped
• hooked
• bombed
• wasted
• high
• blasted
• addicted
• spaced
• stoned
• hopped-up
• blitzed
• wiped out
• strung out
• zonked
• zonked-out
• spaced-out

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• straight
• clean
• sober
• temperate
• steady
• level
• cool
• abstemious
• abstinent
• clearheaded

loaded

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verb

past tense of load

1

as in packed

to place a weight or burden on

students complaining that their teachers were loading them with work

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filled
• packed
• burdened
• saddled
• weighted
• weighed
• stacked
• encumbered
• ladened
• freighted
• laded
• piled
• lumbered
• taxed
• cluttered
• clogged
• overloaded
• heaped
• hampered
• afflicted
• handicapped
• overburdened
• pressed
• mounded
• overtaxed
• surcharged
• oppressed
• strained

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unloaded
• discharged
• unburdened
• relieved
• lightened
• disencumbered
• alleviated
• unladed
• disburdened
• eased

2

as in stuffed

to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained

she loaded her plate at the buffet with as much food as she could carry and with more than any sane person should eat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• filled
• packed
• stuffed
• crammed
• jammed
• heaped
• refilled
• charged
• brimmed
• flooded
• jam-packed
• reloaded
• drenched
• glutted
• replenished
• shoved
• swamped
• repacked
• bloated
• bulked
• saturated
• crowded
• rammed
• refreshed
• squeezed
• squashed
• penetrated
• matted
• overflowed
• pressed
• crushed
• overcharged
• honeycombed
• overfilled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• emptied
• cleared
• vacated
• evacuated
• eliminated
• exhausted
• drained
• depleted
• drew (off)
• cleaned
• lightened
• swept
• voided
• flushed
• purged
• bled
• scoured

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of loaded

Adjective

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has left an Australian hospital a week after she was involved in a crash with a loaded school bus that made international headlines. —Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025

The officers found a loaded Glock handgun in a kitchen cabinet, as well as a loaded Sig Sauer P365 handgun atop a living room coffee table, according to the complaint. —John Annese, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2025

Verb

The Titans loaded the bases with no one out only to see Point Loma’s Hunter Weller wiggle out of the jam on a foul bunt to the catcher, a popout to second base and a lazy fly ball to left field. —John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025

It could also be loaded up with additional sensors that may one day be used in tasks such as searching for survivors at disaster sites, or exploring hazardous environments. —Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 10 Apr. 2025