freighted
/ˈfɹeɪtɪd/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.05 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of freight
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Everything I did seemed awkward to me, and everything I said sounded freighted with hidden meaning."
- "'Identity' is a freighted term to use in a philosophical context."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English freight Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English freighted From freight + -ed.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈfɹeɪtɪd/
- British English: /ˈfɹeɪtɪd/
Inflected Forms
more freighted (comparative)
most freighted (superlative)