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fretful 音標拼音: [fr'ɛtfəl] a. 煩燥的,焦噪的,起波紋的 煩燥的,焦噪的,起波紋的 fretful adj 1: nervous and unable to relax; " a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; " a restless child" [ synonym: { antsy}, { fidgety}, { fretful}, { itchy}] 2: habitually complaining; " a whiny child" [ synonym: { fretful}, { querulous}, { whiney}, { whiny}] 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] 93 Moby Thesaurus words for " fretful": Jeremianic, abrupt, agitated, antsy, antsy- pantsy, anxious, bad- tempered, breathless, bustling, captious, carping, catty, caviling, chafing, choleric, complaining, contrary, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, curt, disagreeable, eager, edgy, excited, faultfinding, fidgety, fluttering, fluttery, fractious, fretting, fussing, fussy, grumpy, hasty, hopped- up, howling, huffy, ill- natured, ill- tempered, impatient, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, irascible, irritable, jumpy, lamentive, moanful, moody, mournful, nagging, naggy, on edge, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, plaintive, plangent, puling, querulous, resentful, restive, restless, short, short- tempered, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, splenetic, squirming, squirmy, sulky, testy, tetchy, touchy, turbulent, ululant, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, unsettled, vexed, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, waspish, whimpering, whining, whiny
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