'Fractious' definitions:
Definition of 'fractious'
From: WordNet
adjective
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" [syn: fractious, refractory, recalcitrant]
adjective
Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy]
adjective
Unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"
Definition of 'Fractious'
From: GCIDE
- Fractious \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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fractious'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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