fraught

Definition of Fraught in English :

1. fraught

marked by distress

Example Sentences:
'a fraught mother-daughter relationship'

2. fraught, pregnant

filled with or attended with

Example Sentences:
'words fraught with meaning'
'an incident fraught with danger'
'a silence pregnant with suspense'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Fraught

adjective

1. (usually postpositive; and foll by with)

filled or charged; attended

a venture fraught with peril

2. informal

showing or producing tension or anxiety

she looks rather fraught

a fraught situation

3. archaic (usually postpositive; and foll by with)

freighted

noun

4. an obsolete word for freight

adjective

1.

filled, charged, or loaded (with)

a life fraught with hardship

2.

emotional, tense, anxious, distressing, etc.

adj.

1. Filled with a specified element or elements; charged: an incident fraught with danger; an evening fraught with high drama.

2. Marked by or causing distress; emotional: "an account of a fraught mother-daughter relationship" (Francesca Simon).

n.
Scots

Freight; cargo.