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Loaded vs Stuffed - What's the difference?

loaded | stuffed |

Stuffed is a synonym of loaded.



As verbs the difference between loaded and stuffed

is that loaded is past tense of load while stuffed is past tense of stuff.

As adjectives the difference between loaded and stuffed

is that loaded is burdened by some heavy load; packed while stuffed is full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).

loaded

English

Verb

(head)
  • (load)

    • 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,
    • .
  • * 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 .

    Related terms

    * loaded for bear

    stuffed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (stuff)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Full (with), or packed (with some material or substance).
  • :
  • *
  • *:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
  • *1997 , Philippe Bonnefis, Paul Weidmann (translator), Céline: The Recall of the Birds , p.109:
  • *:Hence, perhaps, the dins Céline deafens us with, in texts more and more stuffed with onomatopoeias.
  • *2008 , Carn Tiernan, On the Back of the Other Side , p.2:
  • *:She didn?t forget to pack anything, none of those irritating little things that wait till the last moment to pop out of hiding and make her re-open her most stuffed suitcase.
  • *2009 , Marsha Collier, eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies , 2nd Edition, unnumbered page:
  • *:The more stuffed your hard drive, the more Blob-like it becomes.
  • *2009 , David Ugba, Awaken the Riches Within: Creating Extraordinary Wealth Using the Powerful Imagination of a Poet , iUniverse, p.96:
  • *:Creating a poetic or extraordinary belief is the simple act of intensifying the mood or atmosphere of your belief and making it more stuffed with the ability or power to come real.
  • (lb) Full after eating.
  • :
  • *2002 , Sheila M. Reindl, Sensing the Self: Women?s Recovery from Bulimia , p.40:
  • *:Beth says: “I never knew when I was full ?cause I always felt like I didn?t know whether I was hungry or full. My whole life I never knew when I was full or hungry unless I was really stuffed or really starving.”
  • *2009 , Jason McCammon, The Ancient Lands: Warrior Quest: Search for the IFA Scepter , unnumbered page:
  • *:“See, huge meal.” Replied Farra. / “Still stuffed'.” / “Yes, quite ' stuffed .”
  • *2009 , Swapna Dutta, Geeta Menon (editor), Folk Tales of West Bengal , p.47:
  • *:Allhadi gave a contented yawn and said: / “I have eaten till I am really stuffed / I am full and bloated and so puffed / I am bursting, I am telling you true / I couldn?t eat more if you begged me to.”
  • Very tired.
  • *2011 , Nick Oud, The Hatchling and The Human , Xlibris, p.74:
  • *:‘Well, you talked me into it,’ said Cornelius. ‘I feel really stuffed . I can tell you that for sure. So I could do with a bloody good sleep.’
  • Broken, not functional; in trouble, in a situation from which one is unlikely to recover.
  • *1998 , , The Night is for Hunting , 2001, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, unnumbered page:
  • *:If the suspension was stuffed' already from hitting the concrete base of the fence—and it was—then it was really ' stuffed by the time we?d gone a kilometre along the railway.
  • *2002 , Clare de Vries, Of Cats and Kings , p.174:
  • *:But if you don?t play ball in life, if you don?t go for it with a sincere ‘Go, girrrrl’ rugby-tackle attitude, you?re really stuffed .

    • Derived terms

    * get stuffed * stuffed animal, stuffy * stuffed shirt