fractious, adj.
unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
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fractious
sample sentences
"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas""fractious components of a communication system"
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easily irritated or annoyed
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
cranky fractious irritable nettlesome peckish peevish pettish petulant scratchy techy testy tetchy
sample sentences
"an incorrigibly fractious young man""not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
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stubbornly resistant to authority or control
<adj.all>
fractious recalcitrant refractory
sample sentences
"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness""a refractory child"
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