Fraught vs Disturbing - What's the difference?
fraught | disturbing |
(obsolete) The hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.
(obsolete) Money paid to hire a ship or boat to transport cargo; freight
(obsolete) The transportation of goods, especially in a ship or boat.
(obsolete) A ship's cargo, lading or freight.
(Scotland) A load; a burden.
(Scotland) Two bucketfuls (of water).
To load (a ship, cargo etc.).
* 1610 , , by Shakespeare
(of a cargo-carrier) Laden.
* Shakespeare
Furnished, equipped.
Loaded up, charged or accompanied.
* South
* I. Taylor
* 2005 , .
Distressed.
* '>citation
Causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing .}}
As verbs the difference between fraught and disturbing
is that fraught is to load (a ship, cargo etc) while disturbing is .As adjectives the difference between fraught and disturbing
is that fraught is (of a cargo-carrier) laden while disturbing is causing distress or worry; upsetting or unsettling.As a noun fraught
is (obsolete) the hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.fraught
English
Noun
(-)- fraught money .
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
* fraught-freeVerb
(en verb)- Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her.
Adjective
(en adjective)- a vessel of our country richly fraught
- a discourse fraught with all the commending excellences of speech
- enterprises fraught with world-wide benefits
- all these matters are fraught with paradox, just as they always have been
- a fraught relationship