FRAUGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fraught mean? 

• FRAUGHT (adjective)
  The adjective FRAUGHT has 2 senses:

1. marked by distress

2. filled with or attended with

  Familiarity information: FRAUGHT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRAUGHT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by distress

Context example:

a fraught mother-daughter relationship

Similar:

troubled (characterized by or indicative of distress or affliction or danger or need)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Filled with or attended with

Synonyms:

fraught; pregnant

Context example:

a silence pregnant with suspense

Similar:

full (containing as much or as many as is possible or normal)

 Context examples 

This murmur arose from all the land, fraught with the joy of living.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow creatures, then could I live to fulfil it.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She had not been used to feel alarm from wind, but now every blast seemed fraught with awful intelligence.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

The last thing I saw was Littimer's unruffled eye; fraught, as I fancied, with the silent conviction that I was very young indeed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Not only was such an act sacrilegious in its nature, but it was fraught with peril.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The sweet scenes of autumn were for a while put by, unless some tender sonnet, fraught with the apt analogy of the declining year, with declining happiness, and the images of youth and hope, and spring, all gone together, blessed her memory.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The bad stands for all things that are fraught with discomfort, menace, and hurt, and is hated accordingly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Mr. Larkins (a gruff old gentleman with a double chin, and one of his eyes immovable in his head) is fraught with interest to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At last, arrayed for the purpose at a vast expense, I went to Miss Mills's, fraught with a declaration.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If Mr. T. should ever reply to it (which I cannot but feel to be most improbable), a letter addressed to M. E., Post Office, Canterbury, will be fraught with less painful consequences than any addressed immediately to one, who subscribes herself, in extreme distress, Mr. Thomas Traddles's respectful friend and suppliant

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)