fractious

fractious is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
2. adjective. 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"

3. adjective. easily irritated or annoyed

   "an incorrigibly fractious young man"

   "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

   Synonyms: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy

4. adjective. stubbornly resistant to authority or control

   "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"

   "a refractory child"

   Synonyms: recalcitrant, refractory

Synonyms

cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy, recalcitrant, refractory

Common word forms

fractiously, fractiousness

Words from these letters

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