fractious

fractious has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
• a.. 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"
• a.. easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
• a.. stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"