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fretty

fretty adjective: covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.

fretty: covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister
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Adjective (1)

fretty (not comparable)

  1. Covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.
    • The coats of various noble British families were originally fretty, but later 'simplified' to a single fret

Adjective (2)

fretty (comparative more fretty, superlative most fretty)

  1. Inclined to fret, agitated, worrying.
    Synonyms:
    fretful, fretsome
  2. (colloquial) Inflamed, like a sore.

Synonyms of fretty

Forms of fretty

comparativemore fretty
superlativemost fretty

Origin of fretty

From fret (“lattice, trellis”) + -y.

From fret (“to worry”) + -y.

Words formed from fretty

Words that rhyme with fretty

8 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about fretty

What does fretty mean?
Fretty means covered with a lattice-like pattern of diagonally interlaced bendlets and bendlets sinister.
What part of speech is fretty?
Fretty is an adjective.

Words near fretty in the dictionary

  1. fretting leprosy
  2. fretting the gizzard
  3. frettingly
  4. frettings
  5. fretts
  6. fretty
  7. fretum
  8. Fretwell
  9. fretwork
  10. fretworked
  11. fretworks

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