fraught
adjective
[ frɔːt ]
• (of a situation or course of action) filled with or likely to result in (something undesirable).
• "marketing any new product is fraught with danger"
Similar:
full of,
filled with,
swarming with,
rife with,
thick with,
bristling with,
charged with,
loaded with,
brimful of,
brimming with,
attended by,
accompanied by,
• causing or affected by anxiety or stress.
• "there was a fraught silence"
Similar:
anxious,
worried,
upset,
distraught,
overwrought,
agitated,
distressed,
distracted,
desperate,
frantic,
panic-stricken,
panic-struck,
panicky,
beside oneself,
at one's wits' end,
at the end of one's tether,
out of one's mind,
stressed,
hassled,
wound up,
worked up,
in a state,
in a flap,
in a cold sweat,
tearing one's hair out,
having kittens,
in a flat spin,
stressy,
Origin:
late Middle English, ‘laden, equipped’, past participle of obsolete fraught ‘load with cargo’, from Middle Dutch vrachten, from vracht ‘ship's cargo’. Compare with freight.
