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Word | Fret |
agitation resulting from active worry; don't get in a stew; he's in a sweat about exams / remove soil or rock / See 1st Frith. / to be discontented; to worry / to be annoyed or vexed / a state of anxiety or worry. / a: to eat or gnaw into : corrode; also : fray b: rub, chafe c: to make by wearing away a substance the stream fretted a channel / to cause to suffer emotional strain : vex / to pass (as time) in fretting / agitate, ripple / a: to eat into something b: to affect something as if by gnawing or biting : grate / a: wear, corrode b: chafe c: fray 1 / a: to become vexed or worried b of running water : to become agitated / a: the action of wearing away : erosion b: a worn or eroded spot / an agitation of mind : irritation / a: to decorate with interlaced designs b: to form a pattern upon / to enrich with embossed or carved patterns / an ornamental network; especially : a medieval metallic or jeweled net for a woman's headdress / an ornament or ornamental work often in relief consisting of small straight bars intersecting one another in right or oblique angles / one of a series of ridges fixed across the fingerboard of a stringed musical instrument (as a guitar) / to press (the strings of a stringed instrument) against the frets, | |
Usage | ⇒ The guitarist replaced the frets in the guitar ⇒ To fret over your poor grades is foolish; instead, decide to work harder in the future. ⇒ She also says that stars who had to return their borrowed designer duds did not have fret about removing sweat stains. ⇒ Ann fretted that her legs were so skinny ⇒ she always gets into a fret over this ⇒ you need to stop fretting your life away |
Synonyms | irritate, chafe, worry, gall, vex, bother, nettle, stew, ruffle, annoy, irk, trouble, fuss, grate, harass, pique, provoke, rub, gnaw, rankle, |
Antonyms | calm, appease, please, pacify, placate, soothe, comfort, assure, brighten, chill out, mollify, rejoice, enjoyable, entertain, fulfilled, aesthetic, amuse, arbitrate, assuage, gladden, |
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