'Fraught' definitions:
Definition of 'fraught'
From: WordNet
adjective
Marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
adjective
Filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense" [syn: fraught(p), pregnant]
Definition of 'Fraught'
From: GCIDE
- Fraught \Fraught\ (fr[add]t), n. [OE.fraight, fraght; akin to Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG. fr[=e]ht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. Freight.] A freight; a cargo. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fraught'
From: GCIDE
- Fraught \Fraught\, a. Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged. [1913 Webster]
- A vessel of our country richly fraught. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech. --South. [1913 Webster]
- Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. --I. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fraught'
From: GCIDE
- Fraught \Fraught\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fraughted or Fraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Fraughting.] [Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw. frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. fr[=e]ht[=o]n to deserve. See Fraught, n.] To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Fraught'
From: GCIDE
- Fraught \Fraught\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fraughted or Fraught; p. pr. & vb. n. Fraughting.] [Akin to Dan. fragte, Sw. frakta, D. bevrachten, G. frachten, cf. OHG. fr[=e]ht[=o]n to deserve. See Fraught, n.] To freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride The armed ships. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fraught'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anxious,
- attended by,
- burdened,
- charged,
- cumbered,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- encumbered,
- freighted,
- fretful,
- full-charged,
- full-fraught,
- hampered,
- heavy-laden,
- laden,
- loaded,
- nerve-racking,
- oppressed,
- overburdened,
- overcharged,
- overfraught,
- overfreighted,
- overladen,
- overloaded,
- overtaxed,
- overweighted,
- saddled,
- strained,
- stressful,
- supercharged,
- taut,
- taxed,
- tense,
- traumatic,
- trying,
- upsetting,
- weighted,
- weighted down