Word Meanings - FUSS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A tumult; a bustle; unnecessary or annoying ado about trifles. Byron. Zealously, assiduously, and with a minimum of fuss or noise Carlyle. 2. One who is unduly anxious about trifles. I am a fuss and I don't deny it. W. D. Howell.

Related words: (words related to FUSS)

• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• BUSTLER
  An active, stirring person.
• ANNOY
  disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to tease; to ruffle in mind; to vex; as, I was annoyed by his remarks. Say, what can more our tortured souls annoy Than to behold, admire, and lose our joy Prior. 2. To molest,
• ANXIOUSNESS
  The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety.
• ANNOYANCE
  1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
• ANNOYOUS
  Troublesome; annoying. Chaucer.
• ANNOYING
  That annoys; molesting; vexatious. -- An*noy"ing*ly, adv.
• TUMULTER
  A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
• TUMULTUARILY
  In a tumultuary manner.
• TUMULTUARINESS
  The quality or state of being tumultuary.
• BYRONIC
  Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
• NOISELESS
  Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
• ANNOYER
  One who, or that which, annoys.
• ANNOYFUL
  Annoying. Chaucer.
• BUSTLE
  To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. Shak.
• NOISEFUL
  Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
• TUMULTUARY
  1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey. 2. Restless;
• MINIMUM
  The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to Ant: maximum.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• OVERANXIOUS
  Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv.
• STIRABOUT
  A dish formed of oatmeal boiled in water to a certain consistency and frequently stirred, or of oatmeal and dripping mixed together and stirred about in a pan; a hasty pudding.
• MARABOUT
  A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.