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fractious
('fr/&/k/S//@/s )

adjective (a)

  • Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.(adjective)
    source: webster1913

adjective satellite (s)

  • stubbornly resistant to authority or control(adj.all)
    Example:
    A fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
    Synonym:
    recalcitrant, refractory
    source: wordnet30
  • easily irritated or annoyed(adj.all)
    Example:
    An incorrigibly fractious young man.
    Synonym:
    cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy
    source: wordnet30
  • unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome(adj.all)
    Example:
    Rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas.
    Fractious components of a communication system.
    source: wordnet30

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