fretful
11fretful — adjective anxious and complaining, especially about small or unimportant things: The child was tired and fretful. fretfully adverb fretfulness noun (U) …
12fretful — adjective the long wait in traffic was making us fretful Syn: distressed, upset, miserable, unsettled, uneasy, ill at ease, uncomfortable, edgy, agitated, worked up, tense, stressed, restive, fidgety, antsy; querulous, irritable, cross …
13fretful — [ˈfretf(ə)l] adj someone who is fretful is worried and unhappy …
14fretful querulous whiney whiningprenominal whiny — complaining complaining (k[o^]m*pl[=a]n [i^]mg) adj. uttering complaints. Opposite of {uncomplaining}. [prenominal] Note: [Narrower terms: {faultfinding, grumbling(prenominal)}: {fretful, querulous, whiney, whining(prenominal), whiny};… …
15fretful — adjective Date: 1594 disposed to fret ; irritable, restless • fretfully adverb • fretfulness noun …
16fretful — fretfully, adv. fretfulness, n. /fret feuhl/, adj. disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish. Also, fretsome /fret seuhm/. [1585 95; FRET1 + FUL] Syn. petulant, querulous, impatient, testy. * * * …
17fretful — Synonyms and related words: Jeremianic, abrupt, agitated, antsy, antsy pantsy, anxious, bad tempered, breathless, bustling, captious, carping, catty, caviling, chafing, choleric, complaining, contrary, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, curt,… …
18fretful — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. restless; peevish, pettish. See agitation, discontent. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. peevish, petulant, cross, captious; see irritable . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. discontented, irritable,… …
19fretful — fret|ful [ fretfl ] adjective worried and unhappy, especially because of being nervous or tired …
20fretful — fret·ful || fretfÊŠl adj. worried, anxious; agitated; angry, irritable …
