laden

The word “laden” has 2 syllables: lad-en

It's pronounced as /ˈleɪdən/


What is synonym and antonym for laden?

In the thesaurus, “laden” has 38 synonyms and 14 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for laden along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for laden

  • afflict
  • burden
  • burdened
  • charged
  • clog
  • clutter
  • encumber
  • encumbered
  • fill
  • fraught
  • freight
  • full
  • hamper
  • hampered
  • handicap
  • heap
  • lade
  • load
  • lumber
  • mound
  • oppress
  • oppressed
  • overburden
  • overload
  • overtax
  • pack
  • pile
  • press
  • saddle
  • stack
  • strain
  • surcharge
  • tax
  • taxed
  • weigh
  • weighed down
  • weight
  • weighted

Antonyms for laden

  • alleviate
  • disburden
  • discharge
  • disencumber
  • ease
  • empty
  • light
  • lighten
  • relieve
  • unburden
  • unlade
  • unladen
  • unload
  • unloaded

Meanings of laden

  • verb
    1. To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment).
    2. To weigh down, oppress, or burden.
    3. To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water).
    4. To transfer (molten glass) from the pot to the forming table, in making plate glass.
    5. To admit water by leakage.
  • adjective
    1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
    2. Heavy.
    3. Oppressed.
    4. In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.

Example Sentences

  • The tree branches were laden with ripe fruit, ready for harvest.
  • The market stalls displayed tables laden with colorful flowers, attracting passersby.
  • The hiker struggled up the steep hill, his backpack heavily laden with supplies.
  • The air was sweet with the scent of blooming flowers, their branches laden with petals.
  • The cargo ship sailed into the harbor, its decks laden with containers from distant ports.

On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to laden, such as: afflict, alleviate, burden, burdened, charged, clog, clutter.

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  • Junoesque
  • Rubenesque
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jam-packed

  • SRO
  • a lot of
  • abounding
  • abundant
  • adequate
  • airtight
  • alive
  • ample
  • arranged
  • awash
  • big
  • bloated
  • bounteous
  • brimful
  • brimmed
  • brimming
  • bulging
  • bulked
  • bundled
  • burdened
  • bursting
  • charged
  • chock
  • chock-a-block
  • chock-full
  • chockablock
  • chockful
  • choked
  • circumscribed
  • clean
  • close
  • close-grained
  • closed
  • compact
  • compacted
  • competent
  • complete
  • completely full
  • compressed
  • condensed
  • confined
  • confining
  • congested
  • considerable
  • consigned
  • consolidated
  • copious
  • countless
  • cram full
  • crammed
  • cramped
  • cropped
  • crowded
  • crushed
  • dense
  • drenched
  • elbow-to-elbow
  • endless
  • enough
  • entire
  • everywhere
  • extravagant
  • fat
  • filled
  • filled to the rafters
  • firm
  • fit to bust
  • flooded
  • flush
  • fraught
  • full
  • full house
  • full to the gills
  • full up
  • galore
  • generous
  • glutted
  • gorged
  • great
  • gridlocked
  • hard
  • heaped
  • heaps
  • heavy
  • honeycombed
  • huddled
  • imbued
  • immeasurable
  • impenetrable
  • impermeable
  • impervious
  • impregnated
  • intact
  • jam-full
  • jammed
  • jammed full
  • laden
  • lavish
  • loaded
  • loads
  • lotsa
  • lousy with
  • luxurious
  • many
  • massed
  • matted
  • mega
  • mob scene
  • mobbed
  • mucho
  • narrow
  • nip and tuck
  • no end
  • obstructed
  • occluded
  • opaque
  • overbuilt
  • overcharged
  • overcrowded
  • overfed
  • overfilled
  • overflowed
  • overflowing
  • overfull
  • overladen
  • overloaded
  • overpopulated
  • overstuffed
  • packed
  • packed like sardines
  • packed to capacity
  • padded
  • penetrated
  • piled
  • plenteous
  • plentiful
  • plethoric
  • plugged
  • populous
  • pressed
  • profuse
  • rammed
  • refilled
  • refreshed
  • reloaded
  • repacked
  • replenished
  • replete
  • restricted
  • rife
  • running over
  • sardined
  • sated
  • satiated
  • satisfied
  • satisfying
  • saturated
  • scads
  • seething
  • serried
  • short
  • shoved
  • sizable
  • snug
  • sold out
  • solid
  • squashed
  • squeezed
  • standing room only
  • stiff with
  • stocked
  • stopped
  • stoppered
  • stuffed
  • stuffed-up
  • substantial
  • sufficient
  • suffused
  • surfeited
  • swamped
  • swarming
  • teeming
  • thick
  • thickset
  • thronged
  • tight
  • to the roof
  • topped off
  • tumid
  • up to here
  • up to the hilt
  • up to the rafters
  • very many
  • voluminous
  • wall-to-wall
  • weighted
  • well-provided
  • wrapped

lade

  • afflict
  • bail
  • baptize
  • bathe
  • bear down on
  • bleed
  • bother
  • bucket
  • burden
  • clog
  • clutter
  • crush
  • cumber
  • decant
  • deplete
  • depress
  • dip
  • dish
  • dish it out
  • dish out
  • douse
  • drain
  • draw
  • drench
  • duck
  • dump on
  • dunk
  • eliminate
  • empty
  • encumber
  • exhaust
  • fill
  • freight
  • give it to
  • hamper
  • handicap
  • heap
  • hinder
  • immerse
  • impede
  • irrigate
  • laden
  • ladle
  • lave
  • load
  • lower
  • lumber
  • make heavy
  • moisten
  • mound
  • obligate
  • oppress
  • overburden
  • overcharge
  • overload
  • overtax
  • overwhelm
  • pack
  • pile
  • pitch
  • plunge
  • press
  • pump
  • rinse
  • saddle
  • saddle with
  • scoop
  • siphon
  • slop
  • slosh
  • snow
  • snow under
  • soak
  • souse
  • splash
  • spoon
  • stack
  • steep
  • stick it to
  • strain
  • submerge
  • submerse
  • suction
  • surcharge
  • syphon
  • tax
  • trouble
  • try
  • vex
  • wash
  • water
  • weigh
  • weigh down
  • weight
  • wet
  • worry

saddle

  • abyss
  • afflict
  • arroyo
  • barranca
  • barranco
  • basin
  • burden
  • canyon
  • chasm
  • cirque
  • cleft
  • clog
  • clutter
  • col
  • combe
  • coomb
  • coombe
  • coulee
  • couloir
  • crevasse
  • crevice
  • cwm
  • dale
  • defile
  • dell
  • draw
  • encumber
  • fill
  • fissure
  • floodplain
  • flume
  • freight
  • gap
  • gill
  • glen
  • gorge
  • gulch
  • gulf
  • gulley
  • gully
  • gutter
  • hamper
  • handicap
  • heap
  • hollow
  • howdah
  • kettle
  • kloof
  • lade
  • laden
  • linn
  • load
  • lumber
  • mound
  • notch
  • nullah
  • oppress
  • overburden
  • overload
  • overtax
  • pack
  • packsaddle
  • pass
  • pile
  • pillion
  • press
  • ravine
  • seat
  • shut-in
  • stack
  • strain
  • surcharge
  • tax
  • trench
  • trough
  • vale
  • valley
  • wadi
  • wash
  • weigh
  • weight

hampered

  • answerable
  • arrested
  • at fault
  • at the helm
  • authoritative
  • baffled
  • balked
  • barred
  • barricaded
  • bedfast
  • bedridden
  • blockaded
  • blocked
  • bonded
  • bottled-up
  • bound
  • bound to
  • bounded
  • braked
  • bridled
  • burdened
  • carrying the load
  • censurable
  • chained
  • chargeable
  • charged
  • checked
  • chilled
  • choked
  • circumscribed
  • clogged
  • closed
  • compassed
  • compelled
  • confined
  • constrained
  • contracted
  • controlled
  • cooped up
  • cramp
  • cramped
  • culpable
  • curbed
  • decision-making
  • decreased
  • defined
  • delayed
  • delimited
  • deprived
  • derailed
  • detained
  • determinate
  • deterred
  • devolving on
  • diminished
  • disrupted
  • duty-bound
  • embarrassed
  • encircled
  • encumbered
  • engaged
  • executive
  • exposed
  • fastened
  • fettered
  • finite
  • fixed
  • flattened out
  • foiled
  • fraught
  • frustrated
  • full
  • gave a hard time
  • governed
  • grounded
  • guilty
  • haltered
  • handcuffed
  • handicapped
  • held
  • held back
  • held up
  • held-back
  • hemmed in
  • high
  • hindered
  • hitched
  • hobbled
  • hog-tied
  • iced
  • immured
  • impeded
  • imprisoned
  • in authority
  • in chains
  • in control
  • in jail
  • incarcerated
  • incommodious
  • incumbent
  • indisposed
  • inhibited
  • invalided
  • jailed
  • laden
  • laid up
  • leashed
  • liable
  • loaded
  • local
  • locked up
  • manacled
  • minding the store
  • mired
  • moderate
  • moderated
  • modified
  • muzzled
  • narrow
  • narrowed
  • obligated
  • obliged
  • obstructed
  • on ice
  • on the hook
  • open
  • oppressed
  • particular
  • pent
  • pledged
  • precise
  • prescribed
  • prevented
  • qualified
  • reduced
  • reined
  • reined in
  • repressed
  • reserved
  • restrained
  • restricted
  • retained
  • retarded
  • roadblocked
  • sabotaged
  • sealed up
  • sectional
  • secured
  • shackled
  • short-circuited
  • shortened
  • shut-in
  • sick
  • small
  • smothered
  • stayed
  • stifled
  • stopped
  • strangled
  • stumped
  • stymied
  • subject
  • suffocated
  • suppressed
  • surrounded
  • susceptive
  • sworn to
  • taxed
  • temperate
  • tempered
  • tethered
  • thwarted
  • tied
  • tied up
  • to blame
  • topical
  • trammeled
  • trammelled
  • under contract
  • under obligation
  • weighed down
  • weighted

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