fraught
Meaning of fraught
adjective
- (of a situation or course of action) filled with or likely to result in (something undesirable).
marketing any new product is fraught with danger
- causing or affected by anxiety or stress.
there was a fraught silence
she sounded a bit fraught
late Middle English, ‘laden, equipped’, past participle of obsolete fraught ‘load with cargo’, from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with freight.
Information about fraught
- It is an adjective.
- The plural form of fraught is: fraughts.
- Languages in which fraught is used:
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Hyphenation of fraught
fraught
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- fraught is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
fraught synonyms
Meaning pregnant:
Meaning feeling or showing worry, nervousness, or unease about something with an uncertain outcome:
Meaning anxious or troubled about actual or potential problems:
Meaning unhappy, disappointed, or worried:
Meaning very worried and upset:
Meaning in a state of nervous excitement or anxiety:
Meaning feeling or appearing troubled or nervous:
Meaning suffering from extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain:
Meaning unable to concentrate because one is preoccupied by something worrying or unpleasant:
Meaning feeling or showing a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with:
Meaning distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion:
Meaning feeling or characterized by uncontrollable fear or anxiety:
Meaning experiencing mental or emotional strain or tension:
Meaning harass; pester:
fraught antonyms
Meaning not showing or feeling nervousness, anger, or other strong emotions:
Translation of fraught
- Spanish: tenso, estresante, tirante, angustiante
- French: tendu, stressant
- Portuguese: tenso
Words that rhyme with fraught
Connaught, arraught, aught, befraught, bellyflaught, bestraught, bonaught, caught, claught, connaught, distraught, dreadnaught, extraught, fearnaught, fireflaught, flaught, foretaught, forstraught, haught, maught, mistaught, naught, onslaught, outcaught, outdraught, outraught, overcaught, overdistraught, overdraught, overfraught, overraught, overtaught, pretaught, raught, recaught, retaught, saught, spaught, straught, taught, thaught, uncaught, underdraught, undertaught, undistraught, unfraught, unsaught, untaught, upcaught, upraught
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