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fraught
fraught F0302200 (frôt)adj.1. Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama.2. Marked by or causing distress; emotional: "an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship" (Francesca Simon).n. Scots Freight; cargo.
[Middle English, past participle of fraughten, to load, from fraght, cargo; see freight, and from Middle Dutch vrachten, to load (from vracht, freight; see aik- in Indo-European roots).]fraught (frɔːt) adj1. (and foll by: with) 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 (and foll by: with) freightedn an obsolete word for freight[C14: from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht freight]fraught (frɔt)
adj. 1. filled or attended (fol. by with). 2. Archaic. laden. [1300–50; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, freight charges] Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. | fraught - marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"troubled - characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need; "troubled areas"; "fell into a troubled sleep"; "a troubled expression"; "troubled teenagers" | | 2. | fraught - filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense"pregnantfull - containing as much or as many as is possible or normal; "a full glass"; "a sky full of stars"; "a full life"; "the auditorium was full to overflowing" |
fraughtadjective1. (Informal) tense, trying, difficult, distressing, tricky, emotionally charged It has been a somewhat fraught day.2. agitated, wired (slang), anxious, distressed, tense, distracted, emotive, uptight (informal), emotionally charged, strung-up, on tenterhooks, hag-ridden She's depressed, fraught, and exhausted.fraught with filled with, full of, charged with, accompanied by, attended by, stuffed with, laden with, heavy with, bristling with, replete with, abounding with The production has been fraught with problems.Translationscarico digravidogremitoinquietantepieno diчреватыйfraught
fraught with dangerVery unsafe or risky. A trip to that part of town at night would be fraught with danger—why risk it?See also: danger, fraughtfraught with dangerCliché [of something] full of something dangerous or unpleasant. The spy's trip to Russia was fraught with danger. My escape from the kidnapper was fraught with danger.See also: danger, fraughtfraught with danger/perilVery risky indeed. Fraught with means “full of ” and is rarely used today except in the sense of something undesirable. The expression, a cliché since the nineteenth century, first appeared in print in 1576 as “fraught with difficulties”; the precise cliché was first cited by the OED as appearing in 1864 in H. Ainsworth’s Tower of London: “This measure . . . is fraught with danger.”See also: danger, fraught, perilfraught
Related to fraught: fraught with danger, fraught with perilSynonyms for fraughtadj tenseSynonyms- tense
- trying
- difficult
- distressing
- tricky
- emotionally charged
adj agitatedSynonyms- agitated
- wired
- anxious
- distressed
- tense
- distracted
- emotive
- uptight
- emotionally charged
- strung-up
- on tenterhooks
- hag-ridden
phrase fraught withSynonyms- filled with
- full of
- charged with
- accompanied by
- attended by
- stuffed with
- laden with
- heavy with
- bristling with
- replete with
- abounding with
Synonyms for fraughtadj marked by distressRelated Wordsadj filled with or attended withSynonymsRelated Words |