English-Thai Dictionary

fretful

ADJ ซึ่ง หงุดหงิด  ซึ่ง หัวเสีย  ซึ่ง กลัดกลุ้ม  agitated anxious worried calm patient serene sueng-ngud-ngid

 

fretfully

ADV อย่าง หงุดหงิด  อย่าง หัวเสีย  อย่าง กลัดกลุ้ม  agitatedly anxiously worriedly patiently serenely yang-ngud-ngid

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRETFUL

a.Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as a fretful temper.

 

FRETFULLY

adv. Peevishly; angrily.

 

FRETFULNESS

n.Peevishness; ill-humor; disposition to fret and complain.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FRETFUL

Fret "ful, a. Etym: [See 2d Fret. ]

 

Defn: 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.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fretful

fret ful |ˈfretfəl ˈfrɛtfəl | ▶adjective feeling or expressing distress or irritation: the baby was crying with a fretful whimper. DERIVATIVES fret ful ly adverb, fret ful ness noun

 

Oxford Dictionary

fretful

fret |ful |ˈfrɛtfʊl, -f (ə )l | ▶adjective feeling or expressing distress or irritation: the baby was crying with a fretful whimper. DERIVATIVES fretfully adverb, fretfulness noun

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fretful

fretful adjective the long wait in traffic was making us fretful: distressed, upset, miserable, unsettled, uneasy, ill at ease, uncomfortable, edgy, agitated, worked up, tense, stressed, restive, fidgety, antsy; querulous, irritable, cross, fractious, peevish, petulant, out of sorts, bad-tempered, irascible, grumpy, crotchety, captious, testy, tetchy, cranky, het up, uptight, twitchy, crabby.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fretful

fretful adjective the heat was making the child fretful: distressed, upset, miserable, unsettled, uneasy, ill at ease, uncomfortable, agitated, distraught, overwrought, wrought up, worked up, tense, stressed, restive, fidgety; irritable, cross, crabbed, fractious, peevish, petulant, out of sorts, bad-tempered, ill-natured, edgy, irascible, grumpy, crotchety, touchy, captious, testy, tetchy; querulous, complaining, grumbling, whining; N. Amer. cranky; informal het up, uptight, twitchy, rattled, crabby; dated overstrung, unquiet.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fretful

fret ful /frétf (ə )l /形容詞 いらいらした, 〈赤ん坊が 〉むずかった ; 気難しい, 怒りっぽい .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞