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fretfulness
noun as in anxiety
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noun as in care
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noun as in chagrin
noun as in discontent
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noun as in disquiet
noun as in dissatisfaction
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noun as in impatience
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noun as in inquietude
noun as in irascibility
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noun as in irascibleness
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- acerbity
- anger
- annoyance
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill humor
- impatience
- irascibility
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- short fuse
- slow burn
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- surliness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tetchiness
- tiff
- touchiness
- wax
noun as in nerves
noun as in restiveness
noun as in restlessness
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noun as in short fuse
Weak matches
- acerbity
- anger
- annoyance
- bad humor
- cantankerousness
- crossness
- dander
- excitability
- fit
- furor
- fury
- grouchiness
- heat
- hotheadedness
- huffiness
- ill humor
- impatience
- irascibility
- irascibleness
- ire
- irritability
- irritation
- low boiling point
- miff
- outburst
- passion
- peevishness
- petulance
- pugnacity
- rage
- resentment
- sensitivity
- slow burn
- snit
- sourness
- spleen
- stew
- sullenness
- surliness
- tantrum
- tartness
- tear
- temperament
- tetchiness
- tiff
- touchiness
- wax
noun as in temper
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noun as in testiness
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noun as in tetchiness
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noun as in unease
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noun as in unease
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Example Sentences
In his portrayal of Remy, Daniels nicely draws out the paternal fretfulness of an accidental dad.
All of this allowed him to pour some very personal fear and fretfulness into the role.
So had what little anxiety, what scant fretfulness might still have lingered.
Be on the lookout for signs of fretfulness or too much worry, a shift in eating and sleeping patterns, and worsening medical and mental conditions.
The emotional valence of this room-size grid of images is one of nervousness, fretfulness, restless, undirected energy and dissonance.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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