fraught

Speech parts

1. fraught - Noun

2. fraught - Adjective

3. fraught - Verb

5. fraught - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

A freight; a cargo.

Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.

of Fraught

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

pregnant laden full heavy restless drawn trying attended nervous loaded tense upset strained desperate worried
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Antonyms

placid unruffled phlegmatic composed controlled collected
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Phrases with the word

fraught with

Derivatives

fraughted fraught fraughting

Examples

The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors. John Kennedy Toole

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. China Miéville

Love is not a state, a feeling, a disposition, but an exchange, uneven, fraught with history, with ghosts, with longings that are more or less legible to those who try to see one another with their own faulty vision. Judith Butler

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs. Thomas Kyd

The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be. Peg Bracken

Purposes fraught with horror, that shun the light, and contemplate the pollution of innocence are here engendered, and fostered, and reared to maturity. Charles Brockden Brown

Close letter words and terms

Frauen Frauenfeld fraughan fraught with fraughtage fraughting