0 full of unpleasant things such as problems or dangers:
The negotiations have been fraught with difficulties/problems right from the start.
2 full of (unpleasant things such as problems or dangers):
Writing about science at a popular level is a task fraught with difficulty.
American action was not merely irritating; it was fraught with danger.
Judging from what we have learned about 'enchanted ground', it is an attraction which may well be fraught with illusion.
Finally, there is the fraught issue of fighting inflation.
We underestimate at our peril the difficulty and danger with which the" politics of variation" are fraught.
Although post hoc classification of youth to various developmental trajectories has heuristic value, this method is fraught with problems as well.
The task of the producer is less fraught with pitfalls than that of the writer.
Decisions concerning the medical futility of interventions may be fraught with apprehension and misgivings for everyone involved.
Few studies, however, have actually helped to delineate what characterizes a "humane" neonatal death as opposed to one fraught with dependence on technology.