a. | 1. | Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; |
Adj. | 1. | fractious - stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" Synonyms: refractory |
2. | fractious - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" | |
3. | fractious - unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thigkly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system" |