unladen

Examples

• All

• After the rain, the field was quiet and unladen, with only the sound of the wind blowing through the grass.

• We are driven, we common readers, to approach Job's story with tremulous palms held upward and unladen.

  Academic text (1998)

• This is is it an unladen European swallow?

• That's an unladen swallow's flight, obviously.

  Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)

• The concept car has an unladen weight of about 1,390 kg, including the large lithium-ion battery.

  Blog text (28)

• In all the high school textbooks, it is said that science must be firmly rooted in experiment or observation, unladen with theoretical preconceptions.

  Academic text (1994)

• The unladen cart rolled smoothly down the hill, free from the weight it usually carried.

Synonyms

U

unencumbered

vsunladen

8 6.8

Free from worries, duties, debts and other things that hold you back

focuses on physical absence of a weight rather than figurative freedom

U

unburdened

vsunladen

5.3

Not carrying heavy things

is about not carrying an actual load or cargo

B

burdenless

vsunladen

7.2

Not carrying a weight or feeling heavy with worry

focuses specifically on absence of things that weigh down

U

unweighted

vsunladen

• Specialized

3.7

An exercise performed without extra weight

applies to absence of added weight not to carrying empty loads

Antonyms

L

to laden

• Archaic

1 4.8

To put a heavy load onto something, for example a truck

How Laden

overladen

1 7.0

loaded

2.6

unladen

5.6

empty

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

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