Fraught vs Conscious - What's the difference?
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(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.
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Distressed.
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Alert, awake.
Aware.
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Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
* 1999 , Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now , Hodder and Stoughton, pages 61–62:
Fraught is a related term of conscious.
As adjectives the difference between fraught and conscious
is that fraught is (of a cargo-carrier) laden while conscious is alert, awake.As a noun fraught
is (obsolete) the hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.As a verb fraught
is to load (a ship, cargo etc).fraught
English
Noun
(-)- fraught money .
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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
References
*conscious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.}}
- Once again the animals were conscious of a vague uneasiness.
- The best indicator of your level of consciousness is how you deal with life's challenges when they come. Through those challenges, an already unconscious person tends to become more deeply unconscious, and a conscious' person more intensely ' conscious .