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Fretful vs Fearful - What's the difference?

fretful | fearful |

As adjectives the difference between fretful and fearful

is that fretful is irritable, bad-tempered, grumpy or peevish while fearful is frightening.

fretful

English

Alternative forms

* fretfull (archaic)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • irritable, bad-tempered, grumpy or peevish
  • * 1909:
    • It was another cry, but not quite like the one she had heard last night; it was only a short one, a fretful , childish whine muffled by passing through walls.
  • unable to relax; fidgety or restless

    • Anagrams

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    fearful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * fearefull (obsolete) * fearfull (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (fearfuller)
  • Frightening.
  • Frightened, filled with terror.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:
    • Those two great champions did attonce pursew / The fearefull damzell with incessant payns [...].
  • Terrible.
  • Tending to fear.
    • fearful boy

    Synonyms

    * (frightened) frightened, timid, timorous * See also

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