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fretfulness n. 焦躁 焦躁 fretfulness n 1: an irritable petulant feeling [ synonym: { irritability}, { crossness}, { fretfulness}, { fussiness}, { peevishness}, { petulance}, { choler}] 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] 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
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