fractious
adjective
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- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness
Related & opposite
- refractoriness derivation
- unruliness derivation
- disobedient similar to
Sense 2 adjective
easily irritated or annoyed
an incorrigibly fractious young man
Related & opposite
- crankiness derivation
- pettishness derivation
- unruliness derivation
- crossness derivation
- testiness derivation
- crank derivation
- ill-natured similar to
Sense 3 adjective
unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas
Related & opposite
- difficult similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | refractoriness |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | unruliness |
| 1 | similar to | Related & opposite | disobedient |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crankiness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pettishness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | unruliness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crossness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | testiness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | crank |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | ill-natured |
| 3 | similar to | Related & opposite | difficult |