laden

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
6
Words With Friends
8
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ˈleɪdən/
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/ˈleɪdən/ · /ˈleɪdn̩/

Definition of laden

6 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
    “The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.”
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adj

  1. Weighed down with a load, burdened.
    “The other men were variously burthened; some carrying picks and shovels—for that had been the very first necessary they brought ashore from the Hispaniola—others laden with pork, bread, and brandy for the midday meal.”
  2. Heavy.
    “His comments were laden with deeper meaning.”
    “When applied to other persons, the idea of comfort is an intuitive measure of trustworthiness, reliability, and predictability in a polycentric world that managers often find troubling, ambiguous, and anxiety-laden.”
  3. Oppressed.
    “Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor;[…].”
  4. In the form of an adsorbate or adduct.
    “Once laden it is easy to regenerate the adsorbent and retrieve the adsorbed species as a gas.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)past participle of lade
  2. (archaic, poetic)To load or charge.
    “The grass is smoothly cut; the trees are carefully pruned; the flowers, ladening the dreamy air with their perfume, are arranged in studied groups of exquisitely blended colors.”

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Etymology

See lade.

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