freighted

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English

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Etymology

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From freight +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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freighted (comparative more freighted, superlative most freighted)

  1. (also figuratively) Loaded with cargo; charged.
    Synonym: fraught
    Antonyms: unfraught, unfreighted
    • 1832, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Heath's Book of Beauty, 1833, The Enchantress, page 30:
      The purple silk curtains excluded the night-dews, while they allowed the air to enter freighted with odours from the orange trees on the terrace below.
    • 1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XXV, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. [], volume II, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, page 217:
      On hearing of this determination, Mr. [John Jacob] Astor immediately proceeded to fit out a ship called the Enterprise, to sail in company with the Adams, freighted with additional supplies and reinforcements for Astoria.
    • 1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man[1], Dial, published 1965:
      Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning.
    • 2002, Keith Graham, Practical Reasoning in a Social World:
      'Identity' is a freighted term to use in a philosophical context.
    • 2009, Abbott Gleason, A Companion to Russian History:
      It will also consider problems of periodization, a freighted issue in the case of Russia, in part because there the conclusion of peace did not mark the end of armed conflict.
    • 2014, Joseph A. Boone, The Homoerotics of Orientalism:
      In the process, I hope to illuminate the myriad, rather than singular, forms of sexuality and eroticism that have in fact always traversed these politically freighted, ideologically constructed divides from a number of directions.
    • 2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19:
      English National Opera is a title freighted with implications, and that first adjective promises not only a geographical reach, but a linguistic commitment too.

Verb

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freighted

  1. simple past and past participle of freight