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Meaning of 'fractious' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Fractious [ a.]
- Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

Meaning of 'fractious' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . fractious [ s]
Meaning (1):
- stubbornly resistant to authority or control
Example in sentence:
  • a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness;
  • a refractory child
Meaning (2):
- easily irritated or annoyed
Example in sentence:
  • an incorrigibly fractious young man;
  • not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
Meaning (3):
- unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
Example in sentence:
  • fractious components of a communication system;
  • rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas

Nearby Words:

fra frab frabbit fracas fracho fracid fract fracted fraction fractional

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