fraught

fraught  (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.

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[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).]

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fraught [frɔːt]

adj

1. (usually postpositive 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 (usually postpositive and foll by with) freighted

n

an obsolete word for freight

[from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht freight]

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" pregnant full - 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"

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fraught

adjective

1. (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.

Translations

fraught [frɔːt] ADJ

1. (= tense) → tenso
things got a bit fraught → la situación se puso difícil

2. to be fraught with [+ tension] → estar cargado de; [+ problems] → estar lleno de
to be fraught with danger → ser peligrosísimo

fraught [ˈfrɔːt] adj

(= stressful) [situation, day] → stressant(e)

(= full) fraught with [+ difficulties, problems] → chargé(e) de; [+ danger] → plein(e) de

fraught

adj

fraught with difficulty → voller Schwierigkeiten; fraught with danger → gefahrvoll, voller Gefahren; fraught with tension → spannungsgeladen, voller Spannung; fraught with meaning → bedeutungsschwer

(= anxious) meeting, relationship, situation, atmosphere → gespannt; person → angespannt; time → nervenaufreibend

fraught [frɔːt] adj (tense) → teso/a
the situation is rather fraught → la situazione è un po' tesa
fraught with → pieno/a or carico/a di
fraught with danger → pieno/a di pericoli