padded

1. 1
   adjective

   Fitted with soft material that cushions or protects against pressure, impact, or wear.

   The shipping crate had padded walls to protect the fragile glass.

   Hikers prefer boots with padded collars to prevent blisters.

   Similarcushioned, lined, quilted, stuffed, upholstered

   Oppositeunpadded

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of pad.

   He padded his expense report with charges that never happened.

   The cat padded silently across the kitchen floor.

   Note

   One spelling serves as both past tense (she padded the box) and past participle (the report had been padded), and the final d doubles before -ed. What padded means depends on its object. A crate is padded with cushioning, an expense report with unwanted filler, and cloth with a mordant in dyeing. In cricket, a ball is padded away with the leg pad instead of the bat. The cushioning use shades directly into the everyday adjective.

3. 3
   adjective

   Wearing a diaper, as the word is used within the adult baby and diaper lover (ABDL) community.

   On the forum, she wrote that she feels calmest when she spends a lazy Sunday padded.

   Several attendees arrived padded under loose clothing, and nobody else in the hotel lobby could tell.

   Similardiapered

   Note

   This is community vocabulary, not general English. In adult baby and diaper lover (ABDL) circles the diaper counts as padding, so being padded means wearing one. The usage stretches the ordinary "cushioned" sense onto the body itself. Outside those circles, listeners will hear only the cushioning meaning, and a padded jacket stays a jacket. Keep this sense for conversations where that vocabulary is already shared.

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