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fretted (root: fret)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective fretted has 2 senses
- fretted(a = adj.pert) Array - having frets; Array Antonym: unfretted
- fretted(s = adj.all) interlaced, latticed, latticelike - having a pattern of fretwork or latticework; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
fretted, p. p. & a. [From 2d Fret.].
- Rubbed or worn away; chafed. [1913 Webster]
- Agitated; vexed; worried. [1913 Webster]
fretted, p. p. & a. [See 5th Fret.].
- Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface. [1913 Webster]
- Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
fretted
beset, braided, dogged, enlaced, entwined, handwoven, harassed, harried, haunted, hounded, interknit, interlaced, interthreaded, intertied, intertissued, intertwined, interwoven, knit, laced, loomed, persecuted, plagued, plaited, platted, pleached, raddled, textile, tormented, twined, vexed, worried, worried sick, worried stiff, woven, wreathed
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