Adjective

(er)

Wealthy: having a lot of money and possessions.

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Having a fatty, intense flavour.

a rich''' dish; '''rich''' cream or soup; '''rich pastry

* Baker

Sauces and rich spices are fetched from India.

Plentiful, abounding, abundant, fulfilling.

a rich''' treasury; a '''rich''' entertainment; a '''rich crop

* Rowe

If life be short, it shall be glorious; / Each minute shall be rich in some great action.

* Milton

The gorgeous East with richest hand / Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-27, volume=408, issue=8846, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Battle of the bulge , passage=For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world.}}

Yielding large returns; productive or fertile; fruitful.

rich''' soil or land; a '''rich mine

Composed of valuable or costly materials or ingredients; procured at great outlay; highly valued; precious; sumptuous; costly.

a rich''' dress; '''rich''' silk or fur; '''rich presents

* Milton

rich and various gems

Not faint or delicate; vivid.

a rich red colour

(informal, dated) Very amusing.

The scene was a rich one.

a rich incident or character

(Thackeray)

(informal) Ridiculous, absurd.

(computing) Elaborate]], having complex [[format, formatting, multimedia, or depth of interaction.

* 2002 , David Austerberry, The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming

A skilled multimedia developer will have no problems adding interactive video and audio into existing rich media web pages.

* 2003 , Patricia Cardoza, Patricia DiGiacomo, Using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003

Some rich text email messages contain formatting information that's best viewed with Microsoft Word.

* 2008 , Aaron Newman, Adam Steinberg, Jeremy Thomas, Enterprise 2.0 Implementation

But what did matter was that the new web platform provided a rich experience.

Of a fuel-air mixture, having less air than is necessary to burn all of the fuel; less air- or oxygen- rich than necessary for a stoichiometric reaction.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Burdened by some heavy load; packed.

Let's leave the TV; the car is loaded already.

* 1737 , The Gentleman's Magazine , Volume 7, page 780,

With regard to France'' and ''Holland , therefore, I mu?t think, Sir, and it has always been the general Opinion, that the Subjects of each are more loaded and more oppre??ed with Taxes and Exci?es than the People of this Kingdom ;

* 1812 , Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal , Volume 8, page 118,

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* 1888 , , XIII: Theoretical writings on Architecture,

and for that reason the arches of the vaults of any apse should never be more loaded than the arches of the principal building.

* 1913 , ,

What is known concerning supernatural matters is a sort of common deposit, guarded by everybody, and handed down without any intervention on the part of an authority; fuller in one place, scantier in another, or, again, more loaded with external symbols according to the intelligence, the temperament, the organization, the habits, and the manner of the people's life.

* 2011 , Matt Rogan, Martin Rogan, Britain and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Legacy , page 15,

What had traditionally been a morally neutral sport became loaded with a set of Victorian values.

(of a projectile weapon) Having a live round of ammunition in the chamber; armed.

No funny business; this heater's loaded !

(slang) Possessing great wealth.

He sold his business a couple of years ago and is just loaded .

(slang) Drunk.

By the end of the evening, the guests in the club were really loaded .

(baseball) 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.

(gaming, of a die or dice, also used figuratively) Weighted asymmetrically, and so biased to produce predictable throws.

He was playing with loaded dice and won a fortune.

* 1996 , Elaine Creith, Undressing Lesbian Sex , page 49,

The more we invest in a sexual encounter in a particular person, the more loaded the dice in a dating game that we are forever reminded we must play to win.

* 1997 , , Slovo: The Unfinished Autobiography , page 80,

If you add to this the fact that the magistrate and the police sergeant are close friends, then the dice could not have been more loaded against my client.

* 2009 , Michèle Lowrie, Horace: Odes and Epodes , page 224,

Horace has been crippled by being set off against the 'sincerity' and 'spontaneity' of these two; when it comes to the Greek lyricists, the dice are even more loaded against our poet, for the Greeks have not only spontaneity and sincerity on their side, but a phalanx of yet more formidable allies .

(of a question) Designed to produce a predictable answer, or to lay a trap.

That interviewer is tricky; he asks loaded questions.

(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.

* 2993 , L. Susan Bond, Contemporary African American Preaching: Diversity in Theory and Style , page 30,

The more loaded phrase is the middle one, "she slit his gullet," since it captures a sense of crudeness and suddenness that the other two do not.

Equipped with numerous options; deluxe.

She went all out; her new car is loaded .