Fraught vs Stressful - What's the difference?
fraught | stressful |
(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.
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Irritating; causing stress.
As adjectives the difference between fraught and stressful
is that fraught is laden while stressful is irritating; causing stress.As a noun fraught
is 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 .
- (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
References
*stressful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. –Richard Nelson Bolles