FRAUGHT Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

fraught

adjective

ˈfrȯt

Definition of fraught

as in crowded

possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified every room in my childhood home is fraught with memories

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as in uneasy

marked by or causing agitation or uncomfortable feelings had a fraught meeting with his estranged wife to discuss a divorce settlement

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Recent Examples of fraught That march, an inflection point in the Civil Rights Movement, also came at a fraught moment for the country, when economic headwinds, civil unrest, political division and the war in Vietnam bitterly divided Americans. — ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026 As briefly touched on in Death of the Pastor’s Wife, John-Paul’s father, Reginald Wayne Miller, was a pastor with a fraught history of his own. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Aug. 2026 The lead-up to that decision was fraught and not taken lightly. — Charlotte Observer, 28 Aug. 2026 The invitation quickly circulated online, prompting sharp criticism of the Oscar winner’s decision to publicly associate herself with the OpenAI chief at a time when Hollywood’s relationship with artificial intelligence remains particularly fraught. — Travis Cronin, PEOPLE, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for fraught

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fraught

Adjective

Gleason said pursuits are typically limited to two or three police cars to reduce road chaos, but there appeared to be at least five or six in this chase on a crowded road.

— Brittany Wallman, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026
Earlier this year, Becerra was a single-digit polling afterthought in the crowded race to replace Newsom, who is termed-out.

— Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of crowded

Adjective

Vingegaard placed second and Roglič third, completing a historic-but-uneasy single-team podium.

— Chris Marshall-Bell, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
In this tense, uneasy landscape, a separated couple, Natalie and Asher, reunite to take their child, Logan, on a trip to tour colleges in both territories.

— The New Yorker, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of uneasy

Adjective

New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania have introduced or passed legislation penalizing the practice and requiring employers to disclose hiring timelines or remove filled postings, while Texas has opened its own investigation into a major job board.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 4 Sep. 2026
Maybe the sign-up flow has too many fields, the first action users need to take isn't obvious or there's a setting that should have been pre-filled.

— Kelli Behan-Aspland, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of filled

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Two years later, when coached by New Zealander Warren Gatland, Wales learned that a haka was not technically over until any side looked away — and so began a tense 80-second stare-off between the two sides.

— Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Massive bears square up in Alaska ABC News shared a video on Instagram this week of two massive bears in a tense standoff in Alaska.

— David Hookstead OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of tense

Adjective

Nearly 24,000 people, in a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium, settled in to watch the fight — or at least the start of it.

— Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Dsquared2 and Brioni will unveil their new collections at their respective showrooms, adding to a packed schedule of presentations and events.

— Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of packed

Adjective

But coming just four months after the October 7th Hamas attack, tensions were high, misinformation was rife, and Israel’s decades-long conflation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism had burrowed deep into the Western psyche.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Speculation has been rife for years that strong men aid their performance with steroids.

— Rob Tanner, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of rife

Adjective

The tiny farming settlement of Poilley, in Brittany, would become her home for the next eight years, and the subject of more than 50,000 intimate, often unsettling photographs.

— Felix Bazalgette, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
And an overture from an ABC exec (Jessica Hecht) to Andie to jump ship represents another kind of unsettling grooming.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026