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Fractious   /frˈækʃəs/   Listen
Fractious

adjective
1.
Stubbornly resistant to authority or control.  Synonyms: recalcitrant, refractory.  "A refractory child"
2.
Easily irritated or annoyed.  Synonyms: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy.  "Not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
3.
Unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome.  "Fractious components of a communication system"



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"Fractious" Quotes from Famous Books



... preached. There was some opposition by the druids, but it was not successful. He went to the courts of the kings, and converted them; and to say you had baptized a king, was as good as to say you had his whole clan captured; for it was a fractious unnatural clansman who would not go where his chieftain led. We are in an atmosphere altogether different from the rancor and fanaticism of the continent. Patrick,—there must have been something very winning and kindly about the man,— roused no tradition of animosity. He never made ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... isn't—well, you know, it isn't quite sporting to shoot out of season." Barry's manner was as if dealing with a fractious child. ...
— The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land • Ralph Connor
... see. I'm not a pauper, you know. My trustees pay Lord Buntingford whatever I cost him, and I shall have a good deal to spend. I shall have a horse—and perhaps a little motor. The chauffeur here is a fractious idiot. He has done that Rolls-Royce car of Cousin Philip's balmy, and cut up quite rough when I spoke to him ...
— Helena • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... both clouds and cheers our life, Would lay on you, so full of light, joy, grace, The darker, sadder duties of the wife,— Doubts, fears, and frequent toil, and constant care For this poor frame, by sickness sore bested; The daily tendance on the fractious chair, The nightly ...
— The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 • Ministry of Education
... and for my dismissal of her; that I ought to allow him in consequence full freedom of action. I cannot see matters in the same light. But, as I tell him, the change will be all to his advantage. He exchanges a fractious old woman, always ready to tell him unpleasant truths, for one who has made flattery her metier. If he wants quantity she will give it him. Quality he can dispense with—as I have seen for some ...
— Lady Rose's Daughter • Mrs. Humphry Ward


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