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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Occasionally he turned his head to watch with keen eyes the fretful movements of a fly hovering above the water.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSBeardsley was watching Arnold's fingers; there was something aimless and fretful as they pushed among the code-sealed tapes.
WE'RE FRIENDS, NOWHENRY HASSE“I fear there is an element of the morbid, in all this fretful revolt against the old-established destiny of our sex,” she said.
THE DAUGHTERS OF DANAUSMONA CAIRDMrs. Tynan's face flushed with sudden irritation and that fretful look came to her eyes which accompanies a lack of comprehension.
YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERSo that night his head was hot, and he was fretful; and in the morning he would not eat, and apparently had a fever.
LOVE'S PILGRIMAGEUPTON SINCLAIRA sickly, faded, fretful-looking person, nearly ten years his senior!
A CHARMING FELLOW, VOLUME II (OF 3)FRANCES ELEANOR TROLLOPEThey lifted their eyes a moment from the ground, and cast a fretful look at the great, tranquil luminary.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READEThe child had been unusually fretful, and had kept her awake.
THAT LASS O' LOWRIE'SFRANCES HODGSON BURNETTSarcastically applied to people who may be peevish or fretful through ill health.
THE PROVERBS OF SCOTLANDALEXANDER HISLOPIts fretful wails soon ceased under her tender care, and it fell into a gentle slumber on her breast.
A DREADFUL TEMPTATIONMRS. ALEX. MCVEIGH MILLERSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 16, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO FRETFUL
- afraid
- aghast
- antsy
- apprehensive
- basket case
- bugged
- butterflies
- careful
- choked
- clutched
- concerned
- disquieted
- distressed
- disturbed
- dreading
- fearful
- fidgety
- fretful
- hacked
- hyper
- in a state
- in a tizzy
- in suspense
- jittery
- jumpy
- nervous
- nervy
- overwrought
- restless
- scared
- shaking
- shaky
- shivery
- shook up
- shot to pieces
- solicitous
- spooked
- strung out
- sweating bullets
- taut
- troubled
- uneasy
- unglued
- unquiet
- uptight
- watchful
- wired
- worried sick
- wreck
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- chuffy
- churlish
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- misanthropic
- morose
- mumpish
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- annoyed
- cantankerous
- captious
- caviling
- choleric
- churlish
- crabby
- cranky
- crotchety
- crusty
- disagreeable
- faultfinding
- fractious
- fretful
- grouchy
- grumpy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impatient
- irascible
- irritable
- jumpy
- out of humor
- peeved
- peevish
- pettish
- petulant
- put out
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- ratty
- short
- snappy
- splenetic
- sullen
- surly
- testy
- tetchy
- touchy
- vexed
- waspish
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.