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fraught
[ frawt ]
adjective
- full of, accompanied by, or involving something specified, usually something unpleasant (often followed by with ): her pain-fraught body; a gathering fraught with joyful sounds.
a task fraught with danger;
her pain-fraught body;
emotionally fraught lyrics;
a gathering fraught with joyful sounds.
- characterized by or causing tension or stress: We are living in fraught times.
He has always been overweight, so his relationship with food is fraught.
We are living in fraught times.
- Archaic. filled or laden:
ships fraught with precious wares.
noun
- Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
fraught
/ frɔːt /
adjective
- usually postpositiveand foll bywith filled or charged; attended
a venture fraught with peril
- informal.showing or producing tension or anxiety
she looks rather fraught
a fraught situation
- archaic.usually postpositiveand foll bywith freighted
noun
- an obsolete word for freight
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Other Words From
- o·ver·fraught adjective
- un·fraught adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of fraught1
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Example Sentences
This year, with slightly more worldliness and way fewer drinks consumed, I could see the emotionally fraught underbelly.
He was a!ways ready to tell a story that seemed fraught with significance.
Due to the fraught relations between Turkey and Greece, he was safe.
Yet, the relationship between American politics and la mode is more fraught.
But it is their fraught emotional relationship that makes the story so explosive.
The influence of Constantine seems to have been fraught with more of evil than of good to the new religion that he espoused.
To do so at any price frequently demands skill, and is always fraught with consequences of some kind to the listener.
How rapidly past times came thronging over my memory, fraught with joy and grief!
Interplanetary commerce, if and when it begins, will be fraught with all of the dangers that accompany pioneering expeditions.
The trip promised to be perilous and fraught with danger, as well as grueling and full of hardships.
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