freightedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈfɹeɪtɪd/
• ハイフネーション: freight‧ed

形容詞

freighted (comparative more freighted, superlative most freighted)

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

   Synonym: fraught

   Antonyms: unfraught, unfreighted

   • [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:

     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, 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 section), London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, 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.

派生語

• overfreighted
• unfreighted

動詞

freighted

1. simple past and past participle of freight