Synonyms for fraught
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1. fraught

   Synonyms:
   loaded, full, pregnant, teeming, abounding, charged

   Antonyms:
   devoid, divested, exempt, empty, wanting, poor, scant

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1. fraughtadjective

   marked by distress

   "a fraught mother-daughter relationship"

   Synonyms:
   pregnant, fraught(p)

   Antonyms:
   empty, untroubled

2. fraught(p), pregnantadjective

   filled with or attended with

   "words fraught with meaning"; "an incident fraught with danger"; "a silence pregnant with suspense"

   Antonyms:
   untroubled, empty

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1. fraughtadjective

   Synonyms:
   filled, stored, freighted, laden, charged

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1. fraughtadjective

   Synonyms:
   laden, freighted, charged, pregnant

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1. List of paraphrases for "fraught":

   tense, heavy

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1. Brett Bruen:

   The resumption of fighting across the Azeri-Armenian border comes at a fragile, fraught time for the region and the world. There is a very real possibility that this crisis could drag in larger countries, either as part of a proxy war or potentially in a direct confrontation, each side accuses the other of starting this latest round of hostilities. Yet, neither seems to be doing much to end the conflict.

2. Rod Graves:

   The insensitive remarks made by Jon Gruden about DeMaurice Smith are indicative of the racism that exists on many levels of professional sports, furthermore, it reveals that the journey for African Americans and other minorities in sports is riddled with irrepressible mindsets at the highest level. It is our hope that the league and team ownership will address this matter with a remedy commensurate with these painful words. This is yet another inflection point in a society fraught with cynical social blinders, absent of respect for the intellectual capacity and leadership of minorities. When will it end?

3. Matt Travis:

   We generally had try to fly under the radar, knowing how fraught with peril this election might be because of the non-traditional way the votes would eventually be tabulated and the timing of that... we tried to kind of filter out that noise.

4. Maya Angelou:

   A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.

5. Émile Durkheim:

   It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.