Meaning

(also figurative) Loaded with cargo; charged..

Definitions by Sense

1. (also figurative) Loaded with cargo; charged.
2. 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.

English National Opera is a title freighted with implications, and that first adjective promises not only a geographical reach, but a linguistic commitment too.

Word Forms

• more freighted
• most freighted

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When Should You Use Freighted?

Use freighted when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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