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Meaning of fractious


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  fractious
      adj 1: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a
             fractious animal that would not submit to the harness";
             "a refractory child" [syn: {fractious}, {refractory},
             {recalcitrant}]
      2: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young
         man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn:
         {cranky}, {fractious}, {irritable}, {nettlesome}, {peevish},
         {peckish}, {pettish}, {petulant}, {scratchy}, {testy},
         {tetchy}, {techy}]
      3: 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"


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