Origin: Latin
suffix -ous
Fractious has 4 different meanings across 1 category:
Adjective
Adjective
1
stubbornly resistant to authority or control
"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"
"a refractory child"
2
easily irritated or annoyed
"an incorrigibly fractious young man"
"not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
3
unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"
"fractious components of a communication system"
Example Sentences
"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"
adjective
"a refractory child"
adjective
"an incorrigibly fractious young man"
adjective
"not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
adjective
"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"
adjective
"fractious components of a communication system"
adjective