FRACTIOUS as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • unpredictably difficult in operation
   • likely to be troublesome
   Usage Example(s)
   • rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thigkly populated areas
   • fractious components of a communication system
   Similar To
   • difficult (what does difficult mean?)
   • hard (what does hard mean?)
2. Meaning
   • easily irritated or annoyed
   Synonym(s)
   • cranky (what does cranky mean?)
   • irritable (what does irritable mean?)
   • nettlesome (what does nettlesome mean?)
   • peckish (what does peckish mean?)
   • peevish (what does peevish mean?)
   • pettish (what does pettish mean?)
   • petulant (what does petulant mean?)
   • techy (what does techy mean?)
   • testy (what does testy mean?)
   • tetchy (what does tetchy mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • an incorrigibly fractious young man
   • not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
   Similar To
   • ill-natured (what does ill-natured mean?)
3. Meaning
   • stubbornly resistant to authority or control
   Synonym(s)
   • refractory (what does refractory mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness
   • a refractory child
   Similar To
   • disobedient (what does disobedient mean?)