fraught English

Meaning fraught meaning

What does fraught mean?

fraught

— adjective marked by distress a fraught mother-daughter relationship

— adjective (= pregnant) filled with or attended with words fraught with meaning an incident fraught with danger a silence pregnant with suspense

Synonyms fraught synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as fraught?

fraught English » English

uneasy

pregnant

stricken

stressful

loaded

laden

full

filled

distressed

worried

thick with

teeming

stuffy

solicitous

replete

queasy

oppressive

inundated

hot and bothered

haunted

harassed

fully-fledged

draft

daunted

crowded

concerned

brimful

awkward

awash

afraid

Examples fraught examples

How do I use fraught in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.

Movie subtitles

Yes, there is a way, but it's fraught with great danger.

Now, fraught with the terrible weapons of super-science, menacing every creature on Earth, comes.

We can tell by the music how deeply fraught with danger the whole situation is.

Gentlemen, this is a moment fraught with friendship with history humming harmonic overtones.

Not even Bernie Cornfeld's audit was this fraught.

I would you would make use of that good wisdom, whereof I know you are fraught, and put away these dispositions which of late transport you from what you rightly are.

Those responsible for the present state of Singapore's defenses must now have finally awakened to a reality fraught with the utmost peril.

I realize that neither you nor Professor Jastrow understand just how fraught with peril your situation is.

So. constant and unspotted didst thou seem. that this thy fall hath left a kind of blot. to mark the full-fraught man. and best indued with some suspicion.

And if I might say so, sir, any undertaking that requires the presence of four people in one place at the same time while two of them are unaware of the fact, is fraught with the possibility of mishap, sir.

If you ask me, humankind has freedom. a freedom fraught with paradoxes.

A situation fraught with sexual tension.

The project has been fraught with problems and is well behind schedule.

Relationships with co-workers can be fraught with consequences.

Night fell, a night fraught with anxiety.

A situation fraught with gravest consequence for my subjects, Bacon.

There its armored warriors ride, fraught with the fanatic will to maintain their country's peace and isolation by virtue of their own strength and their own belief in whatever the future may bring.

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

Choosing the secretary can be fraught with peril.

And our parents all in black, looking fraught with worry.

Even if this was not a law, which it is I'm afraid I would have a lot of difficulty endorsing an enterprise which is as fraught with genuine peril as I believe this one to be.

Yes. I'm rather fraught with anticipation myself.

I'm fraught with anticipation. Really, really.

If you ask me, humankind has freedom a freedom fraught with paradoxes.

Swell, bosom, with thy fraught, for 'tis of aspics' tongues!

The music is fraught with love, hate. sensuality, and unbridled passion.

Your questions make me fraught.

This office is fraught with emotional volatility.

I'm fraught with anxiety.

Being prone to high saliva secretions, I'm fraught.

Well, Sharon, I'm asked that question a lot, and the stark reality is that that situation is fraught with delightful possibilities.

Elaine, do you think I would go willy-nilly into a situation so obviously fraught with potential complications?

Psychologists agree that adolescence today is much more fraught by pressures and complexities than in years past.

Well, to be honest, your encounter in the car wash has me a little fraught.

I'm going on a date without my mother, which has left me fraught.

I'm fraught.

News and current affairs

Today there may be little that the hemispheric community can do about the situation in Bolivia, and yet it is fraught with danger for everyone.

While election day itself was relatively free from fraud and thuggery, the process leading up to the ballot was fraught with abuse.

Not all football games are fraught with negative feeling and violence.

A cast-iron mechanism to ensure that the debt build-up does not continue forever is appealing as a way of withstanding increasingly fraught competition for funding.

In other places - for example, Guatemala and parts of the Andean region - social divisions remain fraught with violence and distrust.

Policymakers should abandon fraught carbon-reduction negotiations, and instead make agreements to invest in research and development to get this technology to the level where it needs to be.

Relief for Greece is an especially fraught issue in countries where far-right parties are on the rise or center-right governments face popular left-wing opposition.

We see a European system of crisis management that is fraught with ineptitude, extreme politicization, gamesmanship, and unprofessionalism.

In fact, it is fraught with danger.

Attempts to convert national incomes into a common denominator are fraught with complications.

Haiti's situation is fraught with peril.

New nuclear power plants have high up-front costs (which can be politically challenging), including a very complicated, slow, and fraught planning process.

If that is his intention, it is a move fraught with great danger.

The issue is embarrassing in Germany, fraught with political and moral landmines.

The complexities of modern marriage patterns make family life much more fraught, especially when phenomenal power and huge sums of money are involved.

For Chinese liberals, Afghanistan is fraught with ethnic threats.

But central banks' new role as supreme arbiters of policy truth is fraught with hazard.

We do have Clinton (as fraught and self-involved as her journey around these issues was) and Cherie Blair to thank for clearing away the cultural detritus.

But marriage can be a fraught institution (as Strauss-Kahn may know better than most).

And, inevitably, today's big bailouts have been followed by a politically fraught discussion of which banks were rescued, and whose political interests were served.

A new regional order is not yet discernible, which points to a future fraught with risk and possible chaos.

If that is indeed the case, the episode should not be regarded as yet another incident in a region fraught by conflict and violence.