0 behaving in a way that shows you are unhappy, worried, or uncomfortable:
By midnight the children were tired and fretful (= complaining a lot because they were unhappy).
For the most part, during the preoperative period, when the infant or child is frequently fretful and distressed, the care is provided by the parents.
Those were heady times, made more acute and often fretful by the lack of confidence in where things might go.
Our society, which obeyed the law and understood the concept of the rule of law, has become more and more fretful.
If they do not get it, they become nervous and fretful.
Solicitors as a group are, naturally, fretful that they should be made the scapegoat for the present state of the law.
Many of them are substantial grievances; some of them loom large, just because men have become tired and fretful.
It is often fretful and vociferous, and even malignant.
There is a real danger that impatient and fretful men, swept off their feet by indignation and enthusiasm, may destroy more than they build.
