Worried vs Fraught - What's the difference?
worried | fraught |
Thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy.
(worry)
(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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As adjectives the difference between worried and fraught
is that worried is thinking about unpleasant things that have happened or that might happen; feeling afraid and unhappy while fraught is (of a cargo-carrier) laden.As verbs the difference between worried and fraught
is that worried is (worry) while fraught is to load (a ship, cargo etc).As a noun fraught is
(obsolete) the hire of a ship or boat to transport cargo.worried
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She was worried about her son who had been sent off to fight in the war.
Derived terms
* unworriedVerb
(head)Derived terms
* worriedly * worriednessAnagrams
* *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