fraught

[ frawt ]
/ frɔt /

adjective

Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.

noun

Scot. a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).

Idioms for fraught

    fraught with, full of; accompanied by; involving: a task fraught with danger.

Origin of fraught

1300–50; Middle English < Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht freight money, freight; compare Old High German frēht earnings, Old English ǣht possession

OTHER WORDS FROM fraught

o·ver·fraught, adjective un·fraught, adjective

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British Dictionary definitions for fraught

fraught
/ (frɔːt) /

adjective

(usually postpositive and foll by with) filled or charged; attended a venture fraught with peril
informal showing or producing tension or anxiety she looks rather fraught; a fraught situation
archaic (usually postpositive and foll by with) freighted

noun

an obsolete word for freight

Word Origin for fraught

C14: from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht freight