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load

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of load

1 a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported
  • hoisted a load of grain on the truck going to Florida
Synonyms of load

burden, cargo, draft, freight, haul, lading, loading, payload, weight
Words Related to load

consignment

boatload, carload, shipload, trainload, truckload, wagonload

ballast, deadweight

overload, surcharge

bale, bundle, pack, package, packet, parcel, shipment

manifest

body, bulk, mass
2 loads plural a considerable amount
  • There's no rush, since we've got loads of time left.
Synonyms of load

abundance, barrel, basketful, boatload, bucket, bunch, bundle, bushel, carload, chunk, deal, dozen, fistful, gobs, good deal, heap, hundred, lot, mass, mess, mountain, much, multiplicity, myriad, oodles, pack, passel, peck, pile, plateful, plenitude, plentitude, plenty, pot, profusion, quantity, raft, reams, scads, sight, slew, spate, stack, store, ton, volume, wad, wealth, yard
Words Related to load

epidemic, plague, rash

bonanza, embarrassment, excess, overabundance, overage, overkill, overmuch, oversupply, plethora, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit, surplus

deluge, flood, overflow

army, bevy, cram, crowd, crush, drove, flock, herd, horde, host, legion, mob, multitude, press, score, sea, swarm, throng
Phrases Synonymous with load

all kinds (of), quite a bit
Near Antonyms of load

atom, crumb, dot, fleck, flyspeck, fragment, grain, granule, iota, jot, modicum, molecule, mote, nubbin, particle, ray, scintilla, scrap, shred, tittle, whit

smatter, smattering
Antonyms of load

ace, bit, dab, dram, driblet, glimmer, handful, hint, lick, little, mite, mouthful, nip, ounce, peanuts, pinch, pittance, scruple, shade, shadow, smidgen (also smidgeon), speck, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, streak, tad, touch, trace

load

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of load

1 to place a weight or burden on
  • students complaining that their teachers were loading them with work
Synonyms of load

burden, encumber, freight, lade, laden, lumber, saddle, weight
Words Related to load

clog, clutter, fill, pack

heap, mound, pile, stack

press, weigh

strain, tax

overburden, overload, overtax, surcharge

hamper, handicap

afflict, oppress
Near Antonyms of load

alleviate, ease, lighten, relieve
Antonyms of load

disburden, discharge, disencumber, unburden, unlade, unload
2 to put into (something) as much as can be held or contained
  • She loaded her plate at the buffet with as much food as it could carry.
Synonyms of load

brim, charge, cram, fill, heap, jam, jam-pack, pack, stuff
Words Related to load

drench, flood, glut, swamp

bloat, bulk

crowd, crush, mat, press, ram, shove, squash, squeeze

refill, refresh, reload, repack, replenish

overcharge, overfill, overflow, saturate

honeycomb, penetrate
Near Antonyms of load

lighten

deplete, drain, eliminate, exhaust

bleed, draw (off)

clean, flush, purge, scour, sweep
Antonyms of load

clear, empty, evacuate, vacate, void

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