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| English Dictionary: fractious |
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| 2 results for fractious |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- fractious
- adj
- stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a
fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
Synonym(s): fractious, refractory, recalcitrant
- easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Synonym(s): cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
- 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"
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
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.
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