laden

Heavy with cargo

Laden means heavily loaded or weighed down.

A ship laden with cargo sits low in the water.

The word often appears in compounds: oil-laden tankers, debt-laden companies, guilt-laden confessions.

Laden typically suggests burden rather than mere fullness—a laden table groans under its weight, while trees laden with fruit bend their branches.

cargo

shipment

Goods being transported

consignment · supplies · commodities · stockpile · packed · stacked · transport · shipping · groaning · overloaded

burdened

weighed down

Made heavy by burden

overwhelmed · taxed · strapped · bogged down · hampered · hindered · impeded · troubled · beset · afflicted

abundance

overflowing

Exceeding capacity, spilling out

stacked · groaning · abundant · full · replete · teeming · rich · dripping · festooned · bedecked

atmospheric

heavy

Of great mass

suffused · permeated · filled · charged · pregnant · muggy · humid · perfumed · aromatic · hazy

Categories
Opposites
physical load/cargo

ladenempty

Holding nothing inside

unloaded · unladen · light · unburdened · unlade

metaphorical burden

ladenunburdened

Freed from a load

free · unencumbered · light · carefree · untroubled

abundance/saturation

ladenempty

Holding nothing inside

barren · bare · devoid · sparse · wanting

Phrases
Family

lading, unladen

Familiarity
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G