Crossword-Solution: FRETFUL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Fretful | a. | Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FRETFUL | anagram | TRUFFLE |
We have 48 clues for the answer “FRETFUL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Feeling worried | 1 answer |
| Inclined to worry or be irritable | 1 answer |
| Like the neck of a guitar? | 1 answer |
| waspy | 8 answers |
| MENINGOCOCCAL disease symptom (babies) | 9 answers |
| AN IRRITABLE PETULANT FEELING | 10 answers |
| ACT WORRIED | 10 answers |
| fussed | 11 answers |
| pettish | 13 answers |
| tetchy | 14 answers |
| fretted | 15 answers |
| Waspish | 19 answers |
| chafing | 22 answers |
| beleaguered | 29 answers |
| Stressed | 34 answers |
| Itching | 34 answers |
| besieged | 35 answers |
| Paranoid | 35 answers |
| anguished | 36 answers |
| Aggrieved | 39 answers |
| Fretting. | 40 answers |
| neurotic | 42 answers |
| fussy | 44 answers |
| Afraid | 45 answers |
| Bothered | 46 answers |
| harried | 48 answers |
| Deranged | 50 answers |
| Troubled | 52 answers |
| Unbalanced | 54 answers |
| Careworn | 54 answers |
| Anxious | 56 answers |
| distraught | 60 answers |
| DISTRESSED ___ | 64 answers |
| Querulous | 65 answers |
| perverse | 66 answers |
| haunted | 66 answers |
| Gruff | 67 answers |
| fractious | 68 answers |
| worried | 72 answers |
| Snappish | 72 answers |
| Complaining | 73 answers |
| Huffy | 73 answers |
| Uneasy | 77 answers |
| Testy | 77 answers |
| fidgety | 78 answers |
| Suffering | 81 answers |
| Irritable | 82 answers |
| Peevish. | 88 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZEMCAE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FRETFUL (5)
Once Ma’ame Pélagie arose to mix a drink of orange-flower water, which she gave to her sister, as she would have offered it to a nervous, fretful child.
Had I died, in what peculiar misery should I have left you, my nurse, my friend, my sister! You, who had seen all the fretful selfishness of my latter days; who had known all the murmurings of my heart! How should I have lived in _your_ remembrance! My mother too! How could you have consoled her! I cannot express my own abhorrence of myself.
Pale mothers were struggling with fretful babies, or trying to keep their older offspring from the fascination of the track; girls and their “fellows” were giggling and shoving, and passing about candy in sticky bags, and older men, collarless and perspiring, were shifting heavy children from one arm to the other, and keeping a haggard eye on the scattered members of their families.
The young man’s mood seemed fretful; he complained of the heat, of the dust, of a shoe that hurt him, of having gone on an errand a mile to the other side of the town and found the person he was in search of had left Northampton an hour before.
Slaves are not insensible to the whole-souled characteristics of a generous, dashing slaveholder, who is fearless of consequences; and they prefer a master of this bold and daring kind—even with the risk of being shot down for impudence to the fretful, little soul, who never uses the lash but at the suggestion of a love of gain.
Quotes with FRETFUL (3)
I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!
Are we labouring at some Work too vast for us to perceive? Are our passions and desires mere whips and traces by the help of which we are driven? Any theory seems more hopeful than the thought that all our eager, fretful lives are but the turning of a useless prison crank. Looking back the little distance that our dim eyes can penetrate the past, what do we find? Civilizations, built up with infinite care, swept aside and lost. Beliefs for which men lived and died, proved to …
Strike, with hand of fire, O weird musician, thy harp strung with Apollo's golden hair; fill the vast cathedral aisles with symphonies sweet and dim, deft toucher of the organ keys; blow, bugler, blow, until thy silver notes do touch and kiss the moonlit waves, and charm the lovers wandering 'mid the vine-clad hills. But know, your sweetest strains are discords all, compared with childhood's happy laugh — the laugh that fills the eyes with light and every heart with joy. O ri…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1958–2020).