Fractious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Inclined to make trouble; unruly.
  • adj. Having a peevish nature; cranky.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. given to troublemaking
  • adj. irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Apt to quarrel; cross; snappish; peevish; fretful; rebellious: as, a fractious child; a fractious temper.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. easily irritated or annoyed
  • adj. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
  • adj. stubbornly resistant to authority or control
    • Equivalent
    ill-natured    difficult    hard    disobedient   
    Form
    fractiously    fractiousness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    snappish    waspish    pettish    peevish    perverse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    fretful    ill-tempered    headstrong    disobedient    unmanageable   
     
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