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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. having frets;

2. having a pattern of fretwork or latticework;
[syn: fretted, interlaced, latticed, latticelike]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fret \Fret\ (fr[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fretted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fretting.] [OE. freten to eat, consume; AS. fretan, for foretan; pref. for- + etan to eat; akin to D. vreten, OHG. frezzan, G. fressen, Sw. fr[aum]ta, Goth. fra-itan. See For, and Eat, v. t.] 1. To devour. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] The sow frete the child right in the cradle. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] 2. To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship. [1913 Webster] With many a curve my banks I fret. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 3. To impair; to wear away; to diminish. [1913 Webster] By starts His fretted fortunes give him hope and fear. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water. [1913 Webster] 5. To tease; to irritate; to vex. [1913 Webster] Fret not thyself because of evil doers. --Ps. xxxvii. 1. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fretted \Fret"ted\, p. p. & a. [From 2d Fret.] [1913 Webster] 1. Rubbed or worn away; chafed. [1913 Webster] 2. Agitated; vexed; worried. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Fretted \Fret"ted\, p. p. & a. [See 5th Fret.] 1. Ornamented with fretwork; furnished with frets; variegated; made rough on the surface. [1913 Webster] 2. (Her.) Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

fretted adj 1: having frets [ant: unfretted] 2: having a pattern of fretwork or latticework [syn: fretted, interlaced, latticed, latticelike]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "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