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Fretting vs Worrying - What's the difference?

fretting | worrying |

As verbs the difference between fretting and worrying

is that fretting is present participle of fret while worrying is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between fretting and worrying

is that fretting is action of the verb to fret while worrying is the act of worrying or harassing somebody.

As an adjective worrying is

inducing worry.

fretting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Action of the verb to fret .

    • worrying

    English

    (wikipedia worrying)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inducing worry.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=September 7 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Moldova 0-5 England , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Moldova did give England's under-employed keeper Joe Hart a worrying moment when Igor Armas sent a free header wide but otherwise it was an easy night.}}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of worrying or harassing somebody.
  • * Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son
    • There is a snaky gleam in her hard grey eye, as of anticipated rounds of buttered toast, relays of hot chops, worryings and quellings of young children, sharp snappings at poor Berry, and all the other delights of her Ogress's castle.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "worrying")