fretfully
/ˈfɹɛt.fə.li/adverb
fretfully is an adverb meaning “In a fretful manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-R-E-T-F-U-L-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 93 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fretfully mean?
adverb
- 1
In a fretful manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fretfully?
- /ˈfɹɛt.fə.li/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of fretfully
- more fretfully comparative
- most fretfully superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fretfully?
Fretfully appears about once in every 93 million words in written English, the 309,272nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does fretfully come from?
From fretful + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).