fraught with
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6.3
- idiom
- /frɔt wɪð/
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- Their relationship has been fraught with misunderstandings and tension.
- fraught with danger
- fraught with difficulties
- fraught with problems
And the third would be art is fraught with danger.
- And the third would be art is fraught with danger.
- Those political prosecutions are fraught with peril.
- And again, you know, the digital experience of our day-to-day lives is fraught with negativity.
- And trying to predict groupthink is fraught with peril.
- The relationship was fraught with lies, cheating, gaslighting, the whole package.
- For many transgender people across this country, the process of updating and using IDs can be fraught with challenges.
- I'm not sure how much informant handling the modern police service does, to be honest with you, because it's so fraught with risk.
- And we're just living in this post truth world where everything you say is fraught with difficulty because you're going to offend somebody no matter what.
- So, so much of this process for so many people is just fraught with a lot of pain and a lot of entitled behavior on the part of those around us.
- It is fraught with implications, as we say.
Examples
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The road will be fraught with danger.
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Continuing one's education beyond the basic levels is also fraught with problems, primarily financial.
Academic text (1991) -
Yeah, both of those things are fraught with problems.
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And the third would be art is fraught with danger.
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Or you choose this route, which is much more difficult and is fraught with much more risk and much more struggle.
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But this vision was fraught with serious ethical concerns.
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The path to knowledge is fraught with consequence.
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The talks are complicated and fraught with suspicion on both sides.
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Worldwide, education is fraught with gender bias.
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A Heffalump expedition is fraught with danger.
Synonyms
49
3.9
Causing worry or annoyance and hard to deal with
41
7.0
Full of worry, danger, or strong feelings
9
7.0
Having many problems that make things difficult
3
7.4
To have something bad or unwanted that causes problems
1
9.9
Full of trouble and worry that make life difficult
Antonyms
How Problematic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'fraught' can mean 'laden' or 'characterized by' and, together with the preposition 'with', yields 'filled with (usually unpleasant) X', so a learner who knows both constituents can partially infer the meaning. However, 'fraught' is relatively low-frequency and its use to mean 'full of' is somewhat conventional/metaphorical rather than a fully regular compositional pattern, so the sense is not entirely predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrase fraught with comes from an old word fraught that meant 'loaded' or 'full', like a ship carrying 'cargo'. So if something was fraught with problems it was 'full' of them, and that picture is why today it usually means 'filled with' something unpleasant.