fraught
Use Fraught in a sentence
adjective
1.
Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
noun
Idioms 2.
Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
3.
fraught with, full of; accompanied by; involving: a task fraught with danger.
Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht freight money, freight; compare Old High German frēht earnings, Old English ǣht possession
1300–50; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht freight money, freight; compare Old High German frēht earnings, Old English ǣht possession
Related forms
o·ver·fraught, adjective
un·fraught, adjective
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| —adj (and foll by with) (and foll by with) | |
| 1. | filled or charged; attended: a venture fraught with peril |
| 2. | informal showing or producing tension or anxiety: she looks rather fraught; a fraught situation |
| 3. | archaic freighted |
| —n | |
| 4. | an obsolete word for freight |
| [C14: from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht | |
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Fraught
is an SAT word you need to know.
So is frugal. Does it mean:
| Tutumlu |
| wise or judicious in practical affairs; discreet or circumspect; careful in providing for the future |
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Word Origin & History
fraught
c.1300, "laden" (of vessels), from M.E. fraughten "to load (a ship) with cargo," from fraght "cargo, lading of a ship," var. of freight, infl. by M.Du. vrachten "to load or furnish with cargo," from P.Gmc. *fra-aihtiz (see freight). Figurative sense is first attested 1576.
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Example sentences
Designing and interpreting these experiments is difficult and fraught with interpretive pitfalls.
Attempts to reduce capital requirements in busts are equally fraught.
Our exchanges, in those days, seemed fraught with urgency and significance.
But in these fraught times, the medium can be more important than the message.
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