What does fraught mean?
Definitions for fraught
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Princeton's WordNet
fraughtadjective
marked by distress
"a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
fraught(p), pregnantadjective
filled with or attended with
"words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense"
Wiktionary
fraughtnoun
The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
fraughtnoun
Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
fraught money.
fraughtnoun
The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
fraughtnoun
A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
fraughtnoun
A load; a burden.
fraughtnoun
Two bucketfuls (of water).
fraughtverb
To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
fraughtadjective
Laden.
fraughtadjective
Furnished, equipped.
fraughtadjective
Loaded-up, charged or accompanied.
fraughtadjective
Distressed.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Fraughtnoun
A freight; a cargo.
Etymology: from the participle.
Yield up, oh love, thy crown and parted throne
To tyrannous hate! swell, bosom, with thy fraught;
For ’tis of aspicks tongues. William Shakespeare, Othello.The bark that all our blessings brought,
Charg’d with thyself and James, a doubly royal fraught. Dry.FRAUGHTparticip. pass.
Etymology: from fraight,
In the narrow seas that part
The French and English, there miscarried
A vessel of our country, richly fraught. William Shakespeare.With joy
And tidings fraught, to hell he now return’d. John Milton, P. Lost.And now approach’d their fleet from India, fraught
With all the riches of the rising sun,
And precious sand from southern climates brought. Dryden.The Scripture is fraught even with laws of nature. Richard Hooker.
By this sad Una, fraught with anguish sore,
Arriv’d, where they in earth their fruitless blood had spilt. Fairy Queen, b. i. cant. 6.I am so fraught with curious business, that I leave out ceremony. William Shakespeare, Winter’s Tale.
Whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another. Francis Bacon, Essay 28.
Hell, their fit habitation, fraught with fire
Unquenchable, the house of woe and pain. John Milton, Par. Lost.Abdallah and Balfora were so fraught with all kinds of knowledge, and possessed with so constant a passion for each other, that their solitude never lay heavy on them. Guardian.
To Fraughtverb
To load; to crowd.
Hence from my sight:
If after this command thou fraught the court
With thy unworthiness, thou dy’st. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.
ChatGPT
fraught
Fraught is an adjective used to describe a situation or condition filled with or destined to result in something undesirable or problematic. It often implies a high level of stress, tension, worry or anxiety. For example, a 'journey fraught with danger' means a journey filled with or accompanied by danger.
Webster Dictionary
Fraughtnoun
a freight; a cargo
Fraughtadjective
freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged
Fraught
of Fraught
Fraughtnoun
to freight; to load; to burden; to fill; to crowd
Etymology: [OE.fraight, fraght; akin to Dan. fragt, Sw. frakt, D. vracht, G. fracht, cf. OHG. frht merit, reward; perh. from a pref. corresponding to E. for + The root of E. own. Cf. Freight.]
Wikidata
Fraught
Fraught is a 2007 documentary animated short film directed by Stephanie Brotchie and Maia Tarrell.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Fraught
frawt, 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. [Prob. Old Dut. vracht. Cf. Freight.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of fraught in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of fraught in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of fraught in a Sentence
Let's face it, this mission was fraught with peril, because there's no way to flee without causing a stampede, and there's no way to have a stampede that's orderly and meritorious.
The search for happiness is often fraught with many twists and turns, each one challenging our belief that we can truly find nirvana. Andreas Simic
Rejecting this agreement is fraught with unacceptable risk. Our formal negotiation partners and allies have signaled clearly that they are not coming back to the table -- a point confirmed in my conversations and meetings. There is no better deal available now.
One has to be cautious when interpreting studies using medical records. They can be fraught with challenges in how diseases are coded and studied, any anytime you ask people to recall their behaviors, such as drinking, it leaves room for memory errors.
The problem is that's fraught with peril politically for Mike Pence, because ultimately Mike Pence would be stepping into a political timebomb.
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- مَمْلُوءArabic
- загрижен, изпълнен, натоваренBulgarian
- belastet, nervenaufreibend, angespannt, beladen, befrachtet, vollGerman
- φορτωμένος, γεμάτος, πλήρηςGreek
- tensoSpanish
- مملوPersian
- huolestunut, -täyteinenFinnish
- chargéFrench
- teliHungarian
- gravido, carico, pienoItalian
- uelut uaticinantem audiebatLatin
- vol, beladen, bezorgdDutch
- fullNorwegian
- brzemiennyPolish
- cheioPortuguese
- hell, full, belastadSwedish
- kaygılı, endişeli, doluTurkish
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