Difficult
Difficult adjective - Requiring considerable physical or mental effort.
Fraught and difficult are semantically related In some cases you can use "Fraught" instead an adjective "Difficult".
Nearby Word: difficulty
Fraught
Fraught adjective - Possessing or covered with great numbers or amounts of something specified.
Both words in one sentence
- About halfway through The Wise Man's Fear, the protagonist and his team have finally finished a difficult mission fraught with setbacks.
Source: Asspull - It's so fraught with darkness that it's difficult to read at times, but in its two thousand or so single-spaced pages it makes a very strong case for itself as fanfiction's equivalent of Neon Genesis Evangelion, philosophy, deconstruction and all.
Source: Fanfic Recs / Mega Crossover
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Fraught and Difficult. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/fraught
Difficult & Fraught. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/fraught>.
Fraught or Difficult. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/difficult/fraught.
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