fraught
adjective
1. marked by distress
- a fraught mother-daughter relationship
Similar word(s): troubled
2. filled with or attended with
- words fraught with meaning
- an incident fraught with danger
Similar word(s): full, pregnant
Sentences with fraught as an adjective:
- a fraught relationship
noun
1. (obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
2. (obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
- fraught money.
3. (obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
4. (obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
5. (Scotland) A load; a burden.
6. (Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
verb
1. (transitive, obsolete except in past participle) To load (a ship, cargo etc.).