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FRETFULNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does fretfulness mean?

• FRETFULNESS (noun)
The noun FRETFULNESS has 1 sense:

1. an irritable petulant feeling

Familiarity information: FRETFULNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FRETFULNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

An irritable petulant feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

choler; crossness; fretfulness; fussiness; irritability; peevishness; petulance

Hypernyms ("fretfulness" is a kind of...):

distemper; ill humor; ill humour (an angry and disagreeable mood)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fretfulness"):

testiness; tetchiness; touchiness (feeling easily irritated)

pet (a fit of petulance or sulkiness (especially at what is felt to be a slight))

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