heavy-laden

Questions about heavy-laden

What does heavy-laden mean?

heavy-laden means "burdened by cares". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in heavy-laden?

heavy-laden has 5 syllables: he-a-vy--la-den. The stress falls on "vy-".

What is another word for heavy-laden?

Close synonyms include care-laden, burdened, loaded down. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is heavy-laden a common word?

heavy-laden is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.