fraught

Adjective
US[frawt]/frɔt/1 syllable
Synonyms: pregnant

Open English WordNet

Adjective (2)

  1. marked by distress“a fraught mother-daughter relationship”Opposite untroubledSimilar troubled
  2. filled with or attended with“words fraught with meaning”“an incident fraught with danger”“a silence pregnant with suspense”Synonyms: pregnantOpposite emptySimilar full
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Fraught (fra̤t), noun

Origin: OE.fraight, fraght; akin to Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG. frēht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. Freight.

A freight; a cargo. obsolete William Shakespeare

Fraught adjective

Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.

A vessel of our country richly fraught.— William Shakespeare
A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech.— Robert South
Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits.— Isaac Taylor
Fraught transitive verb [past tense & past participle Fraughted or Fraught; present participle & verbal noun Fraughting.]

Origin: Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw. frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. frēhtōn to deserve. See Fraught, noun

To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. obsolete

Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships.— Edward Fairfax

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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