Fretful \Fret"ful\, a. [See 2d Fret.]
Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of
vexation; as, a fretful temper. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fretfulness
n : an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness,
fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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