Fraught

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fraught \Fraught\, a.
     Freighted; laden; filled; stored; charged.
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           A vessel of our country richly fraught.  --Shak.
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           A discourse fraught with all the commending excellences
           of speech.                               --South.
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           Enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits. --I.
                                                    Taylor.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.]
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           Upon the tumbling billows fraughted ride
           The armed ships.                         --Fairfax.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  fraught
       adj 1: marked by distress; "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
       2: filled with or attended with; "words fraught with meaning";
          "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant
          with suspense" [syn: {fraught(p)}, {pregnant}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "fraught":
     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