Word Meanings - FRETFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: FRETFUL

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. -- 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRETFUL)

• Captious
• Carping
• caviling
• censorious
• hypercritical
• cross
• fault-finding
• critical
• cynical
• petulant
• irritable
• splenetic
• touchy
• peevish
• fretful
• Cross
• Ill-tempered
• illhumored
• crusty
• pettish
• snarling
• snappish
• spleeny
• fractious
• Fractious
• Snappish
• testy
• Peevish
• Fretful
• querulous
• captious
• waspish
• ill-natured
• irascible
• Querulous
• Quarrelsome
• complaining
• repining
• discontented
• dissatisfied
• chiding
• murmuring
• whining
• fastidious

Related words: (words related to FRETFUL)

• HYPERCRITICALLY
  In a hypercritical manner.
• CARPET
  packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be
• CARPOGENIC
  Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
• CROSSLY
  Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• CROSSJACK
  The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
• CROSSOPTERYGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
• CROSSBRED
  Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
• CARPETBAG
  A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
• SPLEENY
  1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy.
• REPINER
  One who repines.
• CROSS-STONE
  See STAUROTIDE
• CRITICALLY
  1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
• CROSS-ARMED
  With arms crossed.
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• WHINYARD
  from AS. winn contention, war + geard, gyrd, a staff, rod, yard; or 1. A sword, or hanger. 2. Etym: The shoveler. The poachard.
• CARPER
  One who carps; a caviler. Shak.
• IRRITABLE
  Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. (more info) 1. Capable of being irriated. 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as,
• WHINE
  A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
• GLOCHIDIUM
  The larva or young of the mussel, formerly thought to be a parasite upon the parent's gills.
• LACROSSE
  A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
• HYPOCARP; HYPOCARPIUM
  A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.
• RACHIDIAN
  Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.
• SYNCARPIUM
  See SYNCARP
• SNARL
  To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.
• EXOCARP
  The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or the rind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS