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English to English adjective
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Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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stubbornly resistant to authority or control | | Example: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness
a refractory child
source: wordnet30
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easily irritated or annoyed | | Example: an incorrigibly fractious young man
not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
source: wordnet30
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unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome | | Example: rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas
fractious components of a communication system
source: wordnet30
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