fretful

as in irritable
tending towards or characterized by agitation or irritability They finally lulled the fretful baby to sleep. I kept having fretful thoughts about what would happen if we couldn't pay our bills.

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Recent Examples on the Web Overall, the results point to a world that is, despite its manifold woes, more happy than fretful. Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 25 June 2024 Kounalakis would very much like to be California’s next governor, and her fretful appearance in the 30-second spot is very much a part of her strategy to make that happen in November 2026. Mark Z. Barabak, The Mercury News, 12 June 2024 As the fretful Pisces Moon meets up with apprehensive Saturn, sticking with what’s known might seem safer. Tarot.com, New York Daily News, 31 May 2024 As Queenie, a 25-year-old second-generation British Jamaican, Brown, who is in nearly every scene that isn’t a flashback and narrates throughout, makes a whole person out of a variety of attitudes — hopeful, hopeless, hungover, exuberant, fretful, thoughtful. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for fretful 

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“Fretful.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fretful. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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