fraught

CEFRC1

/fɹɔːt/

adjective · noun

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Full of problems, difficulties, or danger.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.

Examples

  • Landing on the lunar surface is a complex maneuver fraught with challenges.

  • Her pregnancy was fraught with complications.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /fɹoːt/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

  1. The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.

noun

Extra meanings

  1. The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.

  2. A ship's cargo; freight, lading.

More examples

In context

  • a fraught relationship a fraught process

  • fraught money

  • VVell, goe / And bid the Merchants and my men diſpatch / And come aſhore, and ſee the fraught discharg'd.

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English fraught, fraght, freght (“transport of goods or people (usually by water); charge for such transport; facilities for such transport; cargo or passengers of a ship; ballast of a ship; goods in general; (figurative) burden; charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (“cargo, freight; charge for transport of goods”), from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz, from *fra- (intensifying prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“acquisition; possessions, property”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)). Doublet of freight. Cognates * Danish fragt * Old English ǣht (“livestock; property; possessi...