Thesaurus / fretting
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synonyms for fretting
- bother
- disturb
- nag
- ruffle
- distress
- agitate
- displease
- peeve
- harass
- vex
- goad
- nettle
- pique
- rile
- irk
- torment
- irritate
- gall
- trouble
- provoke
- abrade
- get on nerves
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Day by day these fretting anxieties and perplexities wasted her strength, and her fever grew higher and higher.
RAMONAHELEN HUNT JACKSONI can't see father pining and fretting himself to death about his son, without doing something to relieve his mind.
THE WORLD BEFORE THEMSUSANNA MOODIEAnd the colonel and the squire made themselves anything but comfortable, fretting and fuming at the delay.
THE RIVAL CAMPERSRUEL PERLEY SMITHLittle Ned, who was not very well, began fretting and reaching out his arms to be taken by his father.
ELSIE'S VACATION AND AFTER EVENTSMARTHA FINLEYHis colleagues, anxious for peace and fretting under his predominance, allowed themselves to be blinded by their hopes.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNTIt seemed exceedingly savage and ferocious, continually gnashing its teeth; fretting with rage and furiously restless.
BUFFON'S NATURAL HISTORY. VOLUME IX (OF 10)GEORGES LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFONThe very next northward-bound train found Stanton fretting the interminable hours away between Boston and Woodstock.
MOLLY MAKE-BELIEVEELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTTAs it happened, they were not fretting at all, but talking together cheerfully.
LITTLEBOURNE LOCKF. BAYFORD HARRISONThen—for I was fretting to see and rummage over my new home with a measuring tape in my hands—we arranged to drive over.
THIRTY YEARS IN AUSTRALIAADA CAMBRIDGEHe is likely to be restless during the night; the groans and fretting of the others will disturb him.
MARK TWAIN, A BIOGRAPHY, 1835-1910, COMPLETEALBERT BIGELOW PAINESYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 17, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO FRETTING
- annoyed
- begrudging
- bothered
- complaining
- crabby
- critical
- disaffected
- disappointed
- disgruntled
- displeased
- ennuied
- envious
- faultfinding
- fed-up
- fretful
- fretting
- frustrated
- griping
- grudging
- grumbling
- grumpy
- insatiable
- irked
- jaundiced
- jealous
- kvetching
- malcontent
- malcontented
- not satisfied
- offended
- picky
- plaintive
- put-out
- querulous
- sniveling
- sulky
- sullen
- unappeased
- unassuaged
- unfulfilled
- ungratified
- unsated
- unsatisfied
- vexed
- annoyed
- bearish
- brooding
- cantankerous
- carping
- choleric
- complaining
- contentious
- crabbed
- cross
- crotchety
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily offended
- exasperated
- fiery
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- hasty
- hot
- huffy
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- irascible
- moody
- morose
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- petulant
- plaintive
- prickly
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- resentful
- sensitive
- snappy
- snarling
- surly
- tense
- testy
- touchy
- acrimonious
- angry
- bad-tempered
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- childish
- churlish
- complaining
- crabbed
- cranky
- critical
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cussed
- fault-finding
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- grouchy
- grousing
- grumpy
- huffy
- ill-natured
- mean
- morose
- obstinate
- ogre
- ornery
- out-of-sorts
- pertinacious
- petulant
- querulous
- short-tempered
- snappy
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tetchy
- touchy
- ugly
- waspish
- waspy
- whining
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.