(of a situation or course of action) filled with or likely to result in (something undesirable).
Usage examples:
Marketing any new product is fraught with danger
Synonims:
Full ofFilled withSwarming withRife withThick withBristling withCharged withLoaded withBrimful ofBrimming withAttended byAccompanied by
adjective
Causing or affected by anxiety or stress.
Usage examples:
There was a fraught silence
Synonims:
AnxiousWorriedUpsetDistraughtOverwroughtAgitatedDistressedDistractedDesperateFranticPanic-strickenPanic-struckPanickyBeside oneselfAt one's wits' endAt the end of one's tether
adjective
Full of (unpleasant things such as problems or dangers)
Usage examples:
Writing about science at a popular level is a task fraught with difficulty.
adjective
Full of unpleasant things such as problems or dangers
Usage examples:
Fraught with difficulties the negotiations have been fraught with difficulties right from the start.
adjective
Causing or having extreme worry or anxiety
Usage examples:
This is one of the most fraught weekends of the year for the security forces., the atmosphere in th…
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.
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Distressed debts, etc. are sold to investors at very low prices because there is a high risk that the company owing them will be unable to pay them back. investors buy them because they hope to get back more from the company owing the money than they have paid for the debts
Usage examples:
The texas-based firm buys distressed assets from financial institutions and liquidates them at a pr…
