3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Fretful \Fret"ful\, a. [See 2d {Fret}.] Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. -- {Fret"ful*ly}, adv. -- {Fret"ful*ness}, n. Syn: Peevish; ill-humored; ill-natured; irritable; waspish; captious; petulant; splenetic; spleeny; passionate; angry. Usage: {Fretful}, {Peevish}, {Cross}. These words all indicate an unamiable working and expression of temper. Peevish marks more especially the inward spirit: a peevish man is always ready to find fault. Fretful points rather to the outward act, and marks a complaining impatience: sickly children are apt to be fretful. Crossness is peevishness mingled with vexation or anger. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: fretfulness n : an irritable petulant feeling [syn: {irritability}, {crossness}, {fussiness}, {peevishness}, {petulance}, {choler}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 28 Moby Thesaurus words for "fretfulness": anxiety, breathless impatience, chafing, disquietude, eagerness, excitement, fretting, haste, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, lather, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, petulancy, querulousness, resentfulness, restiveness, restlessness, shrewishness, stew, sweat, tense readiness, uneasiness, unpatientness, unquietness, vixenishness
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