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- Dictionaryfractious/ˈfrakʃəs/
adjective
- 1. (typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome: "they fight and squabble like fractious children" Similar Opposite
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Fractious means easily upset or annoyed, and often complaining. Learn more about its usage, pronunciation, and translations in different languages.
If you describe someone as fractious, you disapprove of them because they become upset or angry very quickly about small unimportant things.
The meaning of FRACTIOUS is tending to be troublesome : unruly. How to use fractious in a sentence. Did you know?
Fractious means irritable or unruly, often used to describe children or animals. Find out the origin, usage, and translations of fractious in different languages.
easily upset or annoyed, and often complaining: a fractious child. Synonyms. peevish. petulant disapproving. testy. tetchy. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Bad-tempered. argumentative. bad-tempered. be hell on wheels idiom. be like a bear with a sore head idiom. be spoiling for a fight idiom. grouchy. grumpily. grumpiness. grumpy.
Fractious means refractory or unruly, or readily angered and peevish. Learn the origin, usage, and derived forms of fractious, and see how it differs from factious.
stubbornly resistant to authority or control. “a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness” synonyms: recalcitrant, refractory. disobedient. not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority. adjective. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome.