Fraught
[frɔːt] or [frɔt]
Definition
(adj.) marked by distress; 'a fraught mother-daughter relationship' .
(adj.) filled with or attended with; 'words fraught with meaning'; 'an incident fraught with danger'; 'a silence pregnant with suspense' .
Typist: Lottie--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A freight; a cargo.
(a.) Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
(-) of Fraught
(n.) To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Filled, stored, freighted, laden, charged.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN: full, pregnant, teeming, abounding, charged
ANT:Devoid, divested, exempt, empty, wanting, poor, scant
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Definition
n. a load cargo: the freight of a ship.—v.t. to fill store.—v.i. (Shak.) to form the freight of a vessel.—p.adj. freighted laden: filled.—n. Fraught′age (Shak.) loading cargo.
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Examples
- Unfortunately a sudden change came, fraught with disaster. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And thus thy fall hath left a kind of blot, To mark the full-fraught man and best indued With some suspicion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Larkins (a gruff old gentleman with a double chin, and one of his eyes immovable in his head) is fraught with interest to me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Gentlemen--and Bella and John--the present occasion is an occasion fraught with feelings that I cannot trust myself to express. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The last thing I saw was Littimer's unruffled eye; fraught, as I fancied, with the silent conviction that I was very young indeed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable aggravation to my exasperated spirit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow-creatures, then could I live to fulfil it. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The habit, too, of seeking some sort of recompense in the discontented boast of being disappointed, is a habit fraught with degeneracy. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- At last, arrayed for the purpose at a vast expense, I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- It was a long climb up the face of the building, and one fraught with much danger, but there was no other way, and so I essayed the task. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
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