- full of, accompanied by, or involving something specified, usually something unpleasant (often followed by with): a task fraught with danger; her pain-fraught body;emotionally fraught lyrics;a gathering fraught with joyful sounds.
- characterized by or causing tension or stress: He has always been overweight, so his relationship with food is fraught.We are living in fraught times.
- filled or laden: ships fraught with precious wares.
- a load; cargo; freight (of a ship).
- filled or charged; attended
- showing or producing tension or anxiety
- freighted
- an obsolete word for freight
