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fractious

/'frækʃəs/

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adjective
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
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"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"

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recalcitrant refractory disobedient
adjective
easily irritated or annoyed
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"an incorrigibly fractious young man"

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cranky irritable nettlesome peckish peevish pettish petulant scratchy techy testy tetchy ill-natured
adjective
unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
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"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas" "fractious components of a communication system"

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difficult hard

Examples of fractious

"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"
"an incorrigibly fractious young man"
"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"
"fractious components of a communication system"