HyperDic: fretfulness

English > 1 sense of the word fretfulness:
NOUNfeelingfretfulness, irritability, crossness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choleran irritable petulant feeling
English > fretfulness: 1 sense > noun 1, feeling
MeaningAn irritable petulant feeling.
Synonymsirritability, crossness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler
NarrowerpetA fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight)
testiness, touchiness, tetchinessFeeling easily irritated
Broaderill humor, ill humour, distemperAn angry and disagreeable mood
Spanishcólera, furia
Catalancòlera, fúria
Adjectivesfretfulhabitually complaining

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