Usually means: Anxious and unable to relax.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. fretful: Merriam-Webster
  2. fretful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fretful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fretful: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fretful: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fretful, fretful: Wordnik
  7. fretful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fretful: Wiktionary
  9. fretful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fretful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fretful: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fretful, fretful: Dictionary.com
  13. fretful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Fretful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. fretful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. fretful: Rhymezone
  17. fretful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. fretful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. fretful: FreeDictionary.org
  20. fretful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. fretful: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. fretful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fretful: Legal dictionary

(Note: See fretfully as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Given to fretting.
adjective:  Unable to relax: fidgety; restless; worried; anxious.
adjective:  Irritable; bad-tempered; grumpy; peevish.

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