Definition of FRAUGHT

fraught

Plural: fraughts

Adjective Satellite

  • marked by distress
    • "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"
  • filled with or attended with
    • "words fraught with meaning"
    • "an incident fraught with danger"

Noun

  • The hire of a boat or ship to transport cargo.
  • Money paid to hire a vessel for this purpose; freight.
  • The transportation of goods, especially in a boat or ship.
  • A ship's cargo; freight, lading.
  • Two bucketfuls.
  • A burden, a load.

Verb

Verb Forms: fraughted, fraughting, fraughts

  • To load down; to burden or weigh heavily.
  • To load (a boat, ship, or other vessel) with cargo.
  • To burden or load (someone or something).
  • Followed by with: to furnish or provide (something).
  • To hire (a vessel) to transport cargo or passengers.
  • To transport (cargo or passengers) in a vessel; to freight.
  • To form the cargo or passengers of a vessel.

Adj

  • Of a boat, ship, or other vessel: laden with cargo.
  • Followed by with: carrying, or charged or loaded up with (usually something negative); accompanied by; entailing.
  • Carrying or loaded with anxiety, fear, or stress, for example, due to complexity or difficulty; distressed; also, causing distress; distressing.
  • Followed by with: furnished, provided.

Examples

  • a fraught relationship    a fraught process
  • fraught money
  • His rack was FRAUGHT with vowels, making it hard to form any high-scoring words.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English fraught, fraght, freght (“transport of goods or people (usually by water); charge for such transport; facilities for such transport; cargo or passengers of a ship; ballast of a ship; goods in general; (figurative) burden; charge”), from Middle Dutch vracht, vrecht, or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht (“cargo, freight; charge for transport of goods”), from Proto-Germanic *fra-aihtiz, from *fra- (intensifying prefix) + Proto-Germanic *aihtiz (“acquisition; possessions, property”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- (“to come into possession of, obtain; to own, possess”)). Doublet of freight.
Cognates
* Danish fragt
* Old English ǣht (“livestock; property; possession; power”)
* Old High German frēht (“earnings”) (modern German fracht)
* Swedish frakt

Synonyms

pregnant, equip, equipped, freighted, supplied, supply, wrought-up

Scrabble Score: 14

fraught: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
fraught: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
fraught: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 15

fraught: valid Words With Friends Word