Associations to the word «Fractious»

Wiktionary

FRACTIOUS, adjective. Given to troublemaking
FRACTIOUS, adjective. Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome

Dictionary definition

FRACTIOUS, adjective. Stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child".
FRACTIOUS, adjective. Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen".
FRACTIOUS, adjective. Unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system".

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King