English to English
fractious
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adjective (a)
- Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.(adjective)source: webster1913
adjective satellite (s)
- stubbornly resistant to authority or control(adj.all)Example:
A fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
source: wordnet30 - unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome(adj.all)Example:
Rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas.
Fractious components of a communication system.
source: wordnet30