fraught

[frawt] /frɔt/
adjective
1.
Archaic. filled or laden (with):
ships fraught with precious wares.
noun
2.
Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
Idioms
3.
fraught with, full of; accompanied by; involving:
a task fraught with danger.
Origin
1300-50; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht freight money, freight; compare Old High German frēht earnings, Old English ǣht possession
Related forms
overfraught, adjective
unfraught, adjective
Examples from the web for fraught
  • Their motives may or may not have been good, but their acts were heavily fraught with evil.
  • The political path to approving the advisory panel's report is nearly as complex as the proposals and fraught with uncertainty.
  • The process is fraught with arbitrariness, internecine politics, etcetera.
  • Our exchanges, in those days, seemed fraught with urgency and significance.
  • It's a simple sight, yet fraught with alarming possibility, and that goes for the rest of the movie.
  • Their fraught kinship is what makes their combat so gruelling.
  • Any attempt to find causation or fault for what happened last week is fraught.
  • Efforts to publish those findings have been fraught.
  • But for people with anorexia, meals are fraught with anxiety.
  • Chronic pain is more emotionally fraught than short-lived pain.
British Dictionary definitions for fraught

fraught

/frɔːt/
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
Word Origin
C14: from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vrachtfreight
Word Origin and History for fraught
v.

early 14c., "laden" (of vessels), past participle of Middle English fraughten "to load (a ship) with cargo," from fraght "cargo, lading of a ship" (early 13c.), variant of freight; influenced by Middle Dutch vrachten "to load or furnish with cargo," from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz (see freight (n.)). Figurative sense is first attested 1570s.