fretfulness
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fretfulness — fretful ► ADJECTIVE ▪ anxious or irritated. DERIVATIVES fretfully adverb fretfulness noun … English terms dictionary
Fretfulness — 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;… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
fretfulness — noun see fretful … New Collegiate Dictionary
fretfulness — See fretfully. * * * … Universalium
fretfulness — Synonyms and related words: anxiety, breathless impatience, chafing, disquietude, eagerness, excitement, fretting, haste, impatience, impatientness, impetuousness, lather, peevishness, pettishness, petulance, petulancy, querulousness,… … Moby Thesaurus
fretfulness — n. state of being worried; aggravation; angriness, irritableness … English contemporary dictionary
fretfulness — n. Peevishness, petulance, touchiness, testiness, snappishness, waspishness, pettishness, spleen, captiousness, irritability, ill humor, ill temper … New dictionary of synonyms
fretfulness — fret·ful·ness … English syllables
fretfulness — noun an irritable petulant feeling • Syn: ↑irritability, ↑crossness, ↑fussiness, ↑peevishness, ↑petulance, ↑choler • Derivationally related forms: ↑petulant ( … Useful english dictionary
veaking — fretfulness, peevishness. Exm … A glossary of provincial and local words used in England
