Fraught: meaning, example and synonyms
Fraughtadj. Filled with or likely to cause something undesirable, such as danger or tension.
Example
The negotiations were fraught with mistrust, since each delegation suspected the other of concealing the true size of its fishing fleet.
- Part of speech
- adjective
- Synonyms
- filled, laden, charged, tense
- Antonyms
- calm, untroubled, free, serene
- Memory tip
- Fraught sounds like freighted: loaded down with trouble.
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Check yourself: Fraught in context
The expedition across the ice sheet was ______ with danger, from hidden crevasses to sudden storms that could leave the team stranded for days.
Answer: fraught. Full of danger is fraught with danger. Tenuous (weak), irreproachable (blameless) and unequivocal (clear) don't mean filled with something bad, and none goes with 'with danger.'
The decision to close the village school was ______ with tension, since many families feared that the community would not survive without it.
Answer: fraught. A decision filled with tension is fraught with it. Ephemeral (brief), irreproachable (blameless) and ineluctable (unavoidable) don't mean full of tension.