About The Word Fractious
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Fractious
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What's The Definition Of Fractious?
[adj] unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thigkly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"
[adj] easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [adj] stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" Synonyms | Synonyms for Fractious: cranky | difficult | disobedient | hard | ill-natured | irritable | nettlesome | peckish | peevish | pettish | petulant | refractory | techy | testy | tetchy Related Terms | Find terms related to Fractious: adversary | adversative | adverse | alien | antagonistic | anti | antipathetic | antithetic | at odds | averse | bearish | beyond control | bitchy | breachy | cankered | cantankerous | churlish | clashing | competitive | complaining | con | conflicting | contradictory | contrary | contumacious | counter | crabbed | cranky | cross | cross-grained | crusty | cursory | cussed | defiant | differing | disaccordant | disagreeable | disagreeing | disinclined | disobedient | disputatious | disputing | dissentient | dissenting | enemy | excitable | feisty | forced | fretful | hostile | huffish | huffy | impatient of control | incorrigible | indisposed | indocile | indomitable | inimical | insuppressible | intractable | involuntary | irascible | irrepressible | irritable | mean | mutinous | negative | noncooperative | objecting | obstinate | obstreperous | obstructive | on the barricades | opponent | opposed | opposing | opposite | oppositional | oppositive | oppugnant | ornery | out of hand | overthwart | peevish | perfunctory | perverse | pettish | petulant | proof against | protesting | querulous | rebellious | recalcitrant | refractory | reluctant | renitent | repellent | repugnant | resistant | resisting | resistive | restive | retardant | retardative | rival | shrewish | snappish | spiteful | spleeny | splenetic | sulky | sullen | testy | ugly | unbiddable | unconsenting | uncontrollable | uncooperative | undisciplined | unfavorable | unfriendly | ungovernable | unmalleable | unmanageable | unmoldable | unpropitious | unruly | unsubmissive | unwilling | unyielding | up in arms | waspish | wild | withstanding See Also | Fractious In Webster's Dictionary \Frac"tious\, a. [Cf. Prov. E. frack forward, eager,
E. freak, fridge; or Prov. E. fratch to squabble, quarrel.]
Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross;
snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious
horse.
Syn: Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse;
pettish. -- {Frac"tious*ly}, v. -- {Frac"tious*ness}, n.
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