All 3 Uses
fraught
in
The Fault in Our Stars
(Edited)
- The day of the existentially fraught free throws was coincidentally also my last day of dual leggedness.
p. 31.6fraught = full of something that causes concern
- I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws.
p. 31.8 *
- There was this tunnel that these two kids kept crawling through over and over and they never seemed to get tired, which made me think of Augustus Waters and the existentially fraught free throws.
p. 41.9fraught = full of something that causes concerneditor's notes: The word existential describes something as "related to existence." In this context, existentially fraught means "filled with concerns about existence" such as "What should I do with my life?" She is referring to the story Augustus told of starting to think about life one day when he began to wonder why he spent so much time practicing free throws.
Definitions:
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(1)
(fraught) full of negative things; or marked by or causing distress
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)