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Fretful Moderate

Fretful has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

nervous and unable to relax

"a constant fretful stamping of hooves"

"a restless child"

2

habitually complaining

"a whiny child"

3

Irritable, bad-tempered, grumpy or peevish.

Example Sentences
"a constant fretful stamping of hooves" adjective
"a restless child" adjective
"a whiny child" adjective
See Also
fretfulness peevish grumpy fretsome chagrined relax twiny unfretful
Related Terms
Rhyming Words
awful woful urnful earful endful woeful cupful hueful dueful manful jugful aimful wilful aidful useful canful binful busful armful owlful
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