laden
Carrying a very heavy load.
laden in a sentence
- The donkey plodded up the hill, laden with baskets of oranges.
- The apple tree was laden with fruit, its branches bending under the heavy load.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to laden?
- Aloaded
- Bempty
- Cbare
- Dlight
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A: loaded. The other three mean the opposite of laden.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to laden?
- Afull
- Bempty
- Cloaded
- Dpacked
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B: empty. The other three mean nearly the same as laden.
Words that mean something similar
loaded, full, packed
Words that mean the opposite
empty, light, bare
More words about size & amount
- lavish: Very grand and costing a lot.
- liberal: Given freely and in large amounts.
- lofty: Very tall or high up.
- mammoth: Huge in size or amount.
- meagre: Very small in amount and not enough.
- mere: Nothing more than; only.
- miniature: Very small, like a tiny copy of something bigger.
- moderate: Neither too much nor too little, around the middle.
More words to explore
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Plain-English guides to each test, from the councils’ own pages: Kent Test · Medway Test · Bucks Secondary Transfer Test