laden

Carrying a heavy load or holding a large amount of something.

• A laden cart stood outside.
• The branches were laden with apples.
• We arrived home heavily laden with shopping bags.

How to use it: laden with something (The donkey was laden with bags of grain.)

Similar words: loaded, burdened

Opposites: unladen, empty

Common phrases: heavily laden, laden with something, laden truck

Carrying a strong feeling or an important meaning beyond the words themselves.

• His words were laden with meaning.
• She spoke in a voice laden with guilt.
• The message sounded simple but was laden with warnings.

How to use it: laden with something (Her words were laden with sorrow.)

Similar words: charged, loaded

Common phrases: laden with meaning, emotionally laden, laden with emotion

Held on a material's surface or chemically joined to another substance.

• The gas is laden on the solid surface.
• Heating releases the laden molecules from the material.
• These chemical species remain laden until the adsorbent is regenerated.

Similar words: adsorbed, bound

Common phrases: laden gas molecules, laden chemical species, laden on something