fraught
adjective/frɔːt/
/frɔːt/
- fraught with something filled with something unpleasant
- a situation fraught with danger/difficulty/problems
- (especially British English) causing or feeling worry and stress synonym tense
- She looked/sounded fraught.
- There was a fraught silence.
- The atmosphere remained fraught.
- Things are as fraught as ever in the office.
Word Originlate Middle English, ‘laden, equipped’, past participle of obsolete fraught ‘load with cargo’, from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with freight.
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