Fractious

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  • adjective. Inclined to make trouble; unruly.
  • adjective. Having a peevish nature; cranky.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Apt to quarrel; cross; snappish; peevish; fretful; rebellious: as, a fractious child; a fractious temper.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. given to troublemaking
  • adjective. irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome
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  • adjective. easily irritated or annoyed
  • adjective. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
  • adjective. stubbornly resistant to authority or control
    • Word Usage
    "There's an old joke about university faculty politics: the reason it gets so bitter and fractious is because there is so little at stake."
    Equivalent
    difficult  disobedient  hard  ill-natured  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    choleric  contentious  disobedient  fretful  headstrong  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    adversary  adversative  adverse  alien  antagonistic  
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