Definitions
Anxious, irritable, or prone to complaining.
Word origin
From fret + -ful.
Used in a sentence
“Near-synonyms: fractious, petulant, waspish, impatient, angry, annoyed”
“It was another cry, but not quite like the one she had heard last night; it was only a short one, a fretful, childish whine muffled by passing through walls.”
“[Nick] Bostrom, the philosopher, expressed a sort of resignation about the AI future when we spoke. He used to call himself a “fretful optimist,” he said, but now he’s a “moderate fatalist.””
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Anxious and irritable”7 letters
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