All fretful synonyms
fret·ful
F f adjective fretful
- restless — characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest: a restless mood.
- nervous — highly excitable; unnaturally or acutely uneasy or apprehensive: to become nervous under stress.
- agitated — If someone is agitated, they are very worried or upset, and show this in their behaviour, movements, or voice.
- unsettled — not settled; not fixed or stable; without established order; unorganized; disorganized: an unsettled social order; still unsettled in their new home.
- anxious — If you are anxious to do something or anxious that something should happen, you very much want to do it or very much want it to happen.
- distressed — afflicted with or suffering distress: distress livestock; distress wheat.
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
- caviling — Present participle of cavil.
adj fretful
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- carping — tending to make petty complaints; fault-finding
- complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- contrary — Ideas, attitudes, or reactions that are contrary to each other are completely different from each other.
- crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- cranky — If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
- cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- crotchety — A crotchety person is bad-tempered and easily irritated.
- edgy — nervously irritable; impatient and anxious.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- fractious — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- huffy — easily offended; touchy.
- mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- ornery — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- out of sorts — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- perverse — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- querulous — full of complaints; complaining.
- short-tempered — having a quick, hasty temper; irascible.
- snappish — apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
- testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
- touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
- uneasy — not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.
- worried — having or characterized by worry; concerned; anxious: Their worried parents called the police.
- wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.