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Fractious

//ˈfɹæk.ʃəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Given to troublemaking.

    "1835 James Kirke Paulding: The Diverting History of John Bull and Brother Jonathan Now when the fractious little Beau Napperty heard that Bull had sent over his tenantry to commit trespass upon his marshes, he fell into one of the greatest passions ever known, and swore that Parson Fred should rue the hour he came over into his pastures."

  2. 2
    Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.

    "1841 Western Farmer and Gardener, Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and Rural Economy. Ed. Thomas Affleck. vol. II. Oct. 1840 to Sept. 1841. Fractious boys should be taught to govern their own tempers before they have the full control of oxen; and fractious men should remember that he who controls his own spirit is mightier than many who govern whole cities."

Adjective
  1. 1
    unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome wordnet
  2. 2
    easily irritated or annoyed wordnet
  3. 3
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control wordnet

Etymology

From fraction (“discord”) (now obsolete) + -ous.

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