laden

1. 1.

   filled with a great quantity

   “a tray loaded with dishes”

   “table laden with food”

   “`ladened' is not current usage”

   Synonymsloadedladened

   Similarfull
2. 2.

   burdened psychologically or mentally

   “laden with grief”

   “oppressed by a sense of failure”

   Synonymsoppressed

   Similarburdened

Other forms of laden

past tense

ladenned·

present participle

ladenning·

third person

ladens·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about laden

What does laden mean?

laden means "remove with or as if with a ladle". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laden?

laden has 2 syllables: la-den. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈleɪdən/.

What is another word for laden?

Close synonyms include ladle, lade, load, lade, load up. 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 laden a common word?

laden is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.