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adjectiverefractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness. readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man. Origin of fractiousFirst recorded in 1715–25; fracti(on) + -ous SYNONYMS FOR fractious1 stubborn, difficult. 2 testy, captious, petulant, snappish, pettish, waspish, touchy. SEE SYNONYMS FOR fractious ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM fractiousfrac·tious·ly, adverbfrac·tious·ness, nounun·frac·tious, adjectiveun·frac·tious·ly, adverb un·frac·tious·ness, noun WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH fractiousfactious, fractious Words nearby fractiousfractionate, fractionating column, fractionation, fractionator, fractionize, fractious, fractocumulus, fractostratus, fracture, fracture by contrecoup, fracture zone Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for fractiousRelationships in her "blood family," a distinction her brother pointedly made at her funeral, were often strained and fractious. The Day the Fairytale Died|Marilyn Johnson|July 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Starting with the House, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was largely successful in keeping his fractious caucus largely in check. 2014 New Year’s Resolutions for the D.C. Political Establishment|Ron Christie|January 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST The story told on these walls is a fractured and fractious one that consciously resists an easy narrative. Finally, an Accurate Look Back at AIDS Activism in ‘Why We Fight’|Hugh Ryan|December 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST We are a troubled and fractious country, in a difficult neighbourhood. Rowdy Crowds At Mandela’s Memorial|Mark Gevisser|December 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Daniel Gross on why the markets may be waiting for Boehner and the fractious Republicans to blink. Government Shutdown? Wall Street Refuses to Panic|Daniel Gross|September 30, 2013|DAILY BEAST We expect to be caught with chaff, like fractious colts coquetting with the halter and secretly not unwilling to be caught. Unveiling a Parallel|Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Marchant Happily was it that he was exempt from all those fretful, fractious feelings to which aged people are occasionally subject. Diary of Ezra Green, M.D. from November 1, 1777, to September 27, 1778|Ezra Green They had not bread to quiet the fractious hunger cries of their children. Memoirs of John R. Young|John Young He spoke as to a fractious child, and his voice was kind and helpful even though his inflections were not cultured. The Mystery Girl|Carolyn Wells In Luther's days, how little they knew the magnitude of the results pending that controversy of fractious monk and haughty pope! Conflict of Northern and Southern Theories of Man and Society|Henry Ward Beecher
British Dictionary definitions for fractiousDerived forms of fractiousfractiously, adverbfractiousness, nounWord Origin for fractiousC18: from (obsolete) fraction discord + -ous usage for fractiousFractious is sometimes wrongly used where factious is meant: this factious (not fractious) dispute has split the party still further Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to fractioustesty, unruly, recalcitrant, irritable, unmanageable, restive, awkward, captious, crabby, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy, indomitable, intractable, mean, ornery, peevish, perverse, petulant |