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Definition of Fractious

1. Adjective. Stubbornly resistant to authority or control. "A refractory child"

2. Adjective. Easily irritated or annoyed. "Not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

3. Adjective. Unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome. "Fractious components of a communication system"

Definition of Fractious

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

Definition of Fractious

1. Adjective. given to troublemaking ¹

2. Adjective. irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fractious

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fractious

fractionally fractionals fractionary fractionate fractionated fractionates fractionating fractionating column fractionation fractionations

fractionator fractionators fractioned fractioning fractions fractious (current term) fractiously fractiousness fractiousnesses fractogram

fractographic fractographical fractography fracts fractur fractural fracture fracture bed fracture by contrecoup fracture dislocation

Literary usage of Fractious

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Diary of Philip Hone, 1828-1851 by Philip Hone (1889)
"Wise calls him " blackhearted traitor; " and Adams, in return, pours out the vials of his wrath upon the fractious Virginian. Happy would it be for the ..."

2. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence by Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield, Robert Gould Street (1913)
"fractious horse. — Whether the fractiousness of a horse, with which the plaintiff is attempting to cross a railroad, if it contributes to his injury, ..."

3. Ceylon, the Paradise of Adam: The Record of Seven Years' Residence in the Island by Caroline Corner (1908)
"So resigning herself to the situation, she descended and led the fractious Mascotte on foot through the cocoanut-wood. They had not proceeded far ..."

4. Ceylon, the Paradise of Adam: The Record of Seven Years' Residence in the Island by Caroline Corner (1908)
"So resigning herself to the situation, she descended and led the fractious Mascotte on foot through the cocoanut-wood. They had not proceeded far when ..."

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