THESAURUS
Fretful
Jeremianic, abrupt, agitated, antsy, antsy-pantsy, anxious, bad-tempered, breathless, bustling, captious, carping, catty, caviling, chafing, choleric, complaining, contrary, crabby, cranky, critical, cross, curt, disagreeable, eager, edgy, excited, faultfinding, fidgety, fluttering, fluttery, fractious, fretting, fussing, fussy, grumpy, hasty, hopped-up, howling, huffy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, impatient, impetuous, in a lather, in a stew, in a sweat, irascible, irritable, jumpy, lamentive, moanful, moody, mournful, nagging, naggy, on edge, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, plaintive, plangent, puling, querulous, resentful, restive, restless, short, short-tempered, shrewish, snappish, sorrowful, splenetic, squirming, squirmy, sulky, testy, tetchy, touchy, turbulent, ululant, uneasy, unpatient, unquiet, unsettled, vexed, vixenish, vixenly, wailful, waspish, whimpering, whining, whiny
ROGET THESAURUS
Fretful
Irascibility
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irascibility, irascibleness, temper, crossness, susceptibility, procacity, petulance, irritability, tartness, acerbity, protervity, pugnacity, excitability, bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable, temper, genus irritabile, hot blood, ill humor, asperity, churlishness, huff, a word and a blow, Sir
Fretful Plagiary, brabbler, Tartar, shrew, vixen, virago, termagant, dragon, scold, Xantippe, porcupine, spitfire, fire eater, fury, irascible, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, irritable, susceptible, excitable, thin-skinned, fretful, fidgety, on the fret, hasty, overhasty, quick, warm, hot, testy, touchy, techy, tetchy, like touchwood, like tinder, huffy, pettish, petulant, waspish, snappish, peppery, fiery, passionate, choleric, shrewish, sudden and quick in quarrel, querulous, captious, moodish, quarrelsome, contentious, disputatious, pugnacious, cantankerous, exceptious, restiff, churlish, cross, cross as crabs, cross as two sticks, cross as a cat, cross as a dog, cross as the tongs, fractious, peevish, acari=atre, in a bad temper, sulky, angry, resentful, resentive, vindictive, Int, pish!, a vieux comptes nouvelles disputes, quamvis tegatur proditur vultu furor, vino tortus et ira.