freighted

comparative more freighted · superlative most freighted

1. alsofigurativelyLoaded with cargo; charged.

   'Identity' is a freighted term to use in a philosophical context.

   2002, Keith Graham, Practical Reasoning in a Social World

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   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.

   [1832], L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Enchantress”, in Heath’s Book of Beauty. M.DCCC.XXXIII. […], London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, […] [for Charles Heath], →OCLC, page 30

   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.

   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

   Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning.

   1957, James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues”, in Going to Meet the Man, Dial, published 1965

   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.

   2009, Abbott Gleason, A Companion to Russian History

   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, Joseph A. Boone, The Homoerotics of Orientalism

   Synonyms: fraught · Antonyms: unfraught, unfreighted

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of freight