freighted

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹeɪtɪd/

Verb

freighted

1. simple past and past participle of freight
   • 2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), 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.

Adjective

freighted (comparative more freighted, superlative most freighted)

1. loaded; charged
   • 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.