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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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