PADDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does padded mean? 

• PADDED (adjective)
  The adjective PADDED has 1 sense:

1. softened by the addition of cushions or padding

  Familiarity information: PADDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PADDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Softened by the addition of cushions or padding

Synonyms:

cushioned; cushiony; padded

Similar:

soft (yielding readily to pressure or weight)

 Context examples 

His padded hands were so clumsy and the nuts were so small that he dropped almost as many as he put in the basket.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Now and then great shadows loomed up for an instant and were gone—great, silent shadows which seemed to prowl upon padded feet.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have given orders to the night attendant merely to shut him in the padded room, when once he is quiet, until an hour before sunrise.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

His knees had become raw meat like his feet, and though he padded them with the shirt from his back it was a red track he left behind him on the moss and stones.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Jack Sheppard himself couldn't get free from the strait-waistcoat that keeps him restrained, and he's chained to the wall in the padded room.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I'll fight for my Lord and Master!' and all sorts of similar incoherent ravings. It was with very considerable difficulty that they got him back to the house and put him in the padded room. One of the attendants, Hardy, had a finger broken. However, I set it all right; and he is going on well.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was still in the strait-waistcoat and in the padded room, but the suffused look had gone from his face, and his eyes had something of their old pleading—I might almost say, "cringing"—softness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)