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All fretting synonyms

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adjective fretting

  • bearish — On the stock market, if there is a bearish mood, prices are expected to fall. Compare bullish.
  • complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
  • grousing — to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.
  • putout — a throw or cast, especially one made with a forward motion of the hand when raised close to the shoulder.
  • oversensitive — excessively or unduly sensitive.
  • unassuaged — to make milder or less severe; relieve; ease; mitigate: to assuage one's grief; to assuage one's pain.
  • unfulfilled — not carried out or done: many unfulfilled requests.
  • splenetic — of the spleen; splenic.
  • peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
  • dissatisfied — not satisfied or pleased; discontented.
  • irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
  • ungratified — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
  • put-out — an instance of putting out a batter or base runner.
  • waspy — Sometimes Disparaging and Offensive. of, relating to, or characteristic of WASPs: a Waspy country club.
  • ill humor — a disagreeable or surly mood.
  • out of humor — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
  • unappeased — to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify; soothe: to appease an angry king.

noun fretting

  • stew — to cook (food) by simmering or slow boiling.
  • trituration — the act of triturating.
  • friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
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