| 单词 | fretful |
| 释义 | fretful (once / 2058 pages) 1adj 2adj Someone who's fretful can't relax. You might be fretful — upset and fidgety — if you're waiting to hear whether or not you've been accepted into a competitive summer music program. You may be fretful because you're worried about a friend, you're waiting for news, you're incredibly irritated with your little brother, or simply because you're an anxious and restless person. The word at the heart of fretful is fret, a verb meaning "worry" which is rooted in the Old English fretan, "to eat or devour." From this, fret grew to mean "being eaten away by worry." WORD FAMILYfretful: fretfully, fretfulness+/fret: fretful, frets, fretted, fretting/fretfulness: fretfulnesss/fretted: unfretted USAGE EXAMPLESWide pupils were focused on the stair railing to my right, and fretful ears were fixed on the copper hinges on my parent’s bedroom door. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) IN HER role as agony aunt and columnist, Lucy Kellaway lectures fretful Financial Times readers on how to behave at work. Economist(Nov 24, 2016) But each time he repeated these second-hand assurances, it triggered fretful questions among Nato officials about why Trump was not saying these soothing words himself. The Guardian(Nov 18, 2016) 1 adj nervous and unable to relax 2a constant fretful stamping of hooves Syn antsy, fidgety, itchy tense in or of a state of physical or nervous tension adj habitually complaining Syn querulous, whiney, whiny complaining, complaintive expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment |
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