Synonyms of overloaded

overloaded 1 of 2

adjective

as in overcrowded

Related Words

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

Dissimilar Words

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

overloaded

2 of 2

verb

past tense of overload

as in overburdened

to fill or load to excess

try not to overload your backpack, or you could end up with back problems

Synonyms & Similar Words

• overburdened
• loaded
• stuffed
• overcharged
• overfilled
• burdened
• charged
• weighted
• saddled
• encumbered
• weighed down
• ladened
• lumbered
• laded

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unloaded
• lightened
• unburdened

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of overloaded

Adjective

The overloaded model could centralize expertise, but at the cost of quality and sustainability. — Ethan M. Stone, USA Today, 18 Aug. 2026

The Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Eighteen children were among the nearly 70 people killed when an overloaded ferry capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe this week, police said Saturday after rescuers recovered more bodies. — ABC News, 15 Aug. 2026

Homeowners reported a swift meeting at which officers discussed a reorganization of their specific duties and the hiring of an elevator expert to fix the chronically malfunctioning, overloaded elevators. — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2026

Emergency patients may wait for inpatient beds, nurses become overloaded and surgeries are delayed. — Eugene Litvak, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2026

More capacity in a misaligned organization accelerates divergence, and aligned sponsors watching an overloaded team still get a stall. — Leslie Ellis, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

Even Schnabel’s 2007 concert film, Lou Reed’s Berlin, looks within the poet-rocker’s dire, sensory-overloaded work to find the root of artistic provocation. — A.d. Amorosi, SPIN, 6 Aug. 2026

But nurses and physicians rotate in and out of rooms, often too overloaded with administering medications, measuring vitals, charting notes, and performing procedures to properly engage with them. — Anna Tsioulias, STAT, 29 July 2026

The ballot was so overloaded with star power back then that in his first year, there were 14 other players who are now in the Hall, plus Bonds, Roger Clemens, Mark McGwire, Curt Schilling and Don Mattingly. — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 26 July 2026

Verb

This behavior reflects a generation that is deeply committed to their pets and has no trouble finding information about how to care for them but can be easily overloaded with conflicting information and a paradox of choices about what to do next. — Mita Malhotra, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

The sound can feel dense, but never overloaded — and there are certainly no obvious sops to commerciality here. — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 Aug. 2026

The agency stated in an earlier preliminary report that the plane was overloaded by almost 1,000 lbs. — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 31 July 2026

The plane was also overloaded by about 1,000 pounds for flying into icing conditions, the NTSB found. — Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

Saturn stations retrograde in your 12th House of Solitude, asking you to review rest, avoidance, private fears, and the habits that either restore you or keep you quietly overloaded. — Tarot.com, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2026

Guglielmo thinks that either the original design assumptions were misunderstood, something went wrong during the design or construction process, or construction crews overloaded or weakened the structure. — ABC News, 10 July 2026

Swollen or tender nodes at the neck, armpits or groin signal that the body’s filtration sites are overloaded or actively fighting something, per Cleveland Clinic. — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 29 June 2026

His knack of finding the ball in the right place at the right time in the opposition box has already yielded two goals, and Marcelo Bielsa’s team are not exactly overloaded with reliable goalscorers. — Liam Twomey, New York Times, 24 June 2026