States and conditions
Synonyms for fraught
Synonyms for fraught: tense and pregnant. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for fraught
Interchangeable with fraught in this sense
Audited under fraught's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one fraught carries in that sense.
- tenseadjective, in the sense "filled with tension or strain"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name fraught as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- pregnantpregnant is an adjective in the sense "filled with or attended with"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under fraught and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
filled with tension or strain
The negotiations grew increasingly fraught as the deadline approached.
The true synonym
tense
Same sentence, swapped: The negotiations grew increasingly tense as the deadline approached.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for fraught in the sentence quoted.
- fickle
- fraudulent
- brazen
Where fraught turns up in the game
fraught is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
Play fraught
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so fraught reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. fraught carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.