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 [frawt]

Adjective

1. fraught with involving or filled with: we expected the trip to be fraught with difficulties

2. tense or anxious [Middle Dutch vrachten]

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

adjective 2. (usually with with) agitated, wired (slang) anxious, distressed, tense, distracted, emotive, uptight (informal) emotionally charged, strung-up, on tenterhooks, hag-ridden, adrenalized >> fraught with filled with, full of, charged with, accompanied by, attended by, stuffed with, laden with, heavy with, bristling with, replete with, abounding with

Translations

fraught [frɔːt] adj (tense) → tenso;

fraught with → cargado de

fraught [frɔːt] adj (= tense) [person] → très tendu(e): [situation] → pénible;

fraught with [+ difficulties etc] → chargé(e) de → plein(e) de

fraught [frɔːt] adj (person) → nervös;

to be fraught with danger/problems → voller Gefahren/Probleme sein

fraught [frɔːt] adj (= tense) → teso/a;

fraught with → pieno(a) di, intriso(a) da