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fraught


fraught/frɔːt $ frɒːt/ adjective
[date : 1300-1400; Origin : Past participle of fraught 'to load, fill' (14-19 centuries), from Middle Dutch vracht 'load']
1. fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc
full of problems etc:
  ▪ Their marriage has been fraught with difficulties.

2. full of anxiety or worry SYN tense:
  ▪ a fraught atmosphere
  ▪ a fraught situation
  ▪ Julie sounded rather fraught.

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be fraught with danger (=involve a lot of danger)
Their journey was long and fraught with danger.
be fraught with difficulties (=involve a lot of them)
The whole plan was fraught with difficulties.
fraught with peril (=full of danger)
a voyage that was fraught with peril
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADVERB
so
It is this lack of codified certainty that makes a study of it so fraught with difficulty.
No one had expected politics to become so fraught so early on in the post-handover political transition.
This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart.
NOUN
situation
To learn how to cope in such fraught situations and to survive can be a broadening experience.
Sarah, who lived near to the Brompton Hospital, visited her father regularly although Raine's hostility complicated an already fraught situation.
The police in Ajdabiya were mostly Magharba and Zuwaya, and senior officers took care in selecting men to police fraught situations.
Lowell's humour - unexpected - that could take the heat out of a fraught situation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Alas! the centuries are fraught with pain, and man is burdened by fear and woe.
And her reaction to her illness was, as best I can glean, fraught with fear, discouragement, and depression.
And the idea of establishing another racial group in this racially fraught country is extreme.
Attractive as that proposition has seemed in recent years, the form in which it has been pursued is fraught with difficulties.
But it is said, too, that her passion brings her only a burden of pain, fraught with many sighs.
Then I reminded myself that it is fraught with disappointments.

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