padded
SayPAD-id/ˈpædɪd/
- 1Filled or lined with soft material to make something comfortable or to protect it.
Like a pillow sewn inside something to make it soft.
The padded chair was comfortable to sit in for hours.
She wore a padded jacket to stay warm in the snow.
Similarcushioned, lined, quilted, stuffed, upholstered
Oppositeunpadded
- 2Simple past and past participle of pad. Use this form when talking about something that already happened.
She padded the envelope so the contents would not break.
They padded the box with foam before shipping it.
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- 3Wearing a diaper, a word used among adults who choose to wear diapers.
He likes to stay padded when he relaxes at home on the weekend.
At the meetup, a few people said they had come padded under their jeans.
Similardiapered
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padded is a form of pad
pad, verb: To make something bigger by adding extra parts that are not needed. Full entry
- Spelling
- pad → padded: double the d, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪd/, an extra syllable.
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