Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overloaded

/ˈoʊvɚlˌoʊdɪd/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.13 in modern English

Syllables: over-load-ed
IPA: /ˈoʊvɚlˌoʊdɪd/

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of overload

adj

loaded too heavily

adj

of a word, having multiple meanings depending on context

adj

of a name, used for more than one variable or procedure etc; differentiated by the compiler based on context

Example Sentences

"Was it deliberate that the first week of October 1961 was chosen to conduct a national survey of passenger usage? Why October of all months, when the holiday season was over and families back at work and at school? Was this a fiddling of the figures to make an unfair case against rail-dependent resorts such as those in the West Country, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and East Yorkshire, where previously overloaded summer services would now only have a handful of locals on board?"

Inflected Forms

more overloaded (comparative) most overloaded (superlative)

Derived Forms

nonoverloaded overloadedness unoverloaded

Synonyms

overladen

Questions

How do you pronounce overloaded?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈoʊvɚlˌoʊdɪd/.
What does overloaded mean?: simple past and past participle of overload

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