overfraught

C2+ Topic:Describing Qualities
US /ˌoʊvərˈfrɔt/ UK /ˌəʊvəˈfrɔːt/
adj

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Full of distress; overloaded with cares or worries.

    MALCOLM. Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.

Etymology

Formed from over- + fraught. Fraught originally meant loaded or freighted; overfraught intensifies that image to describe something excessively burdened, especially with care or emotion.

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