Synonyms of fretful

fretful

adjective

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.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• irritable
• anxious
• troubled
• agitated
• worried
• nervous
• apprehensive
• peevish
• restless
• querulous
• uneasy
• snappish
• petulant
• heated
• disturbed
• irascible
• captious
• pettish
• grouchy
• grumpy
• testy
• cantankerous
• dyspeptic
• bilious
• splenetic
• crabby
• ornery
• disagreeable
• choleric
• excited
• crotchety
• restive
• waspish
• feisty
• belligerent
• surly
• curmudgeonly
• aggressive
• freaked
• sensitive
• sullen
• passionate
• pugnacious
• tetchy
• fractious
• wayward
• sulky
• warlike
• quarrelsome
• snarly
• cranky
• raspy
• bellicose
• obsessed
• combative
• snarky
• hesitant
• tense
• snippy
• truculent
• ill-tempered
• short-tempered
• balky
• distraught
• cross
• pouty
• stuffy
• fiery
• vexed
• contentious
• disputatious
• ill-humored
• militant
• upset
• huffy
• fretting
• ill-natured
• perverse
• argumentative
• prickly
• touchy
• bearish
• cross-grained
• quick-tempered
• ratty
• scrappy
• short
• contrary
• snippety
• off-colored
• gladiatorial
• hectic
• overwrought
• snappy
• feverish
• rude
• thin-skinned
• off-color
• hyperactive
• high-strung
• uptight
• frenzied
• unquiet
• foreboding
• perturbed
• overactive
• disquieted
• jittery
• overexcited
• aggrieved
• out of sorts
• hot-blooded
• out of humor
• distressed
• concerned
• flustered
• insecure
• jumpy
• antsy
• queasy
• nervy
• fidgety
• preoccupied
• stewing
• bothered
• misgiving
• goosey
• dithery
• unnerved
• ill at ease
• wired
• edgy
• unstrung
• freaked-out
• shook-up
• queazy
• hyperexcited
• aquiver
• fluttery
• skittish
• flighty
• aflutter
• atwitter
• hyped-up
• hinky
• undone
• spooky
• afire
• het up
• atingle
• qualmish
• on pins and needles
• in a lather
• hung up
• qualmy
• on tenterhooks
• twittered
• hypertense
• on edge
• keyed up

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• amiable
• affable
• friendly
• genial
• gregarious
• sweet
• companionable
• sociable
• good-natured
• cordial
• agreeable
• outgoing
• extroverted
• extraverted
• carefree
• well-disposed
• easygoing
• relaxed
• patient
• stoical
• uncomplaining
• stoic
• tolerant
• forbearing
• long-suffering
• confident
• good-tempered
• sure
• understanding
• obliging
• calm
• controlled
• happy-go-lucky
• collected
• composed
• easy
• placid
• nerveless
• serene
• tranquil
• undisturbed
• untroubled
• unperturbed
• unworried
• self-assured
• cool
• self-confident
• unshaken
• coolheaded
• self-controlled