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

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  1. a. Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
  2. adj. stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  3. adj. easily irritated or annoyed
  4. adj. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
  5. 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.
  6. Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish;ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
  7. j:100 s. stubbornly resistant to authority or control s. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome