Associations to the word «Fractious»

FRACTIOUS, adjective. Given to troublemaking

FRACTIOUS, adjective. Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome

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".