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fretful Definition

fret·ful (fretfəl)

adjective

tending to fret; irritable and discontented; peevish

fretful Related Forms

fret·fully adverb fret·ful·ness noun

fretful Synonyms

fretful

modif.

fretful Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • baby: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn describes how, as a young and inexperienced mother, she did not know what to do with her fretful baby.
  • impatience: This shewed a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, considering our disagreeable ride.
  • week: In my case, it took about a week; a long, unpleasant, fretful week.
  • night: Shaiala awoke, rubbing her eyes to clear the nightmares that had haunted her fretful night.
  • child: Then beside myself, there were Johnny, a rather fretful child, and baby Nellie.

Used with adjective complement

become: Moreover, there was little for them to eat, and as the officers became hungry they became fretful.