fractious

Letters that make fractious

s, a, o, f, c, r, t, i, u are letters that make 'fractious'

Words within fractious

act, ti, AC, IOU, CT, RA, US, Io, Ra, Ac, Fr, Ti are words within 'fractious'


3 possible definitions for 'fractious'

Fractious as "easily irritated or annoyed"

Under this definition, fractious is an adjective and has the following properties:

Synonyms

scratchy, irritable, peckish, cranky, nettlesome, peevish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy have the same meaning as 'fractious'

Derivatives of fractious

crankiness, crotchetiness, contrariness, grumpiness, temper, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness, fussiness, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness, grouch, grump, churl, fretfulness, petulance, testiness, touchiness, tetchiness, crossness, choler, biliousness, unruliness, crosspatch, crank are derivatives of 'fractious'.

Similar to fractious

ill-natured is similar to fractious.

Example of fractious used within this context

"an incorrigibly fractious young man", "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"


Fractious as "stubbornly resistant to authority or control"

Under this definition, fractious is an adjective and has the following properties:

Synonyms

recalcitrant, refractory have the same meaning as 'fractious'

Derivatives of fractious

refractoriness, unmanageableness, recalcitrance, fractiousness, willfulness, wilfulness, recalcitrancy, unruliness are derivatives of 'fractious'.

Similar to fractious

disobedient is similar to fractious.

Example of fractious used within this context

"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness", "a refractory child"


Fractious as "unpredictably difficult in operation, likely to be troublesome"

Under this definition, fractious is an adjective and has the following properties:

Similar to fractious

difficult, hard are similar to 'fractious'.

Example of fractious used within this context

"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas", "fractious components of a communication system"



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