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