'Fretfulness' definitions:
Definition of 'fretfulness'
(from WordNet)
noun
An irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler]
Definition of 'Fretfulness'
From: GCIDE
- 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; petulant; splenetic; spleeny; passionate; angry.
- Usage: 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fretfulness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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