fractious

Từ điển WordNet v3.1 - WordNet Dictionary

adjective

1. stubbornly resistant to authority or control
- a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness
- a refractory child
• Syn:
refractory, recalcitrant
• Similar to:
disobedient
• Derivationally related forms:
refractoriness (for: refractory), fractiousness
2. easily irritated or annoyed
- an incorrigibly fractious young man
- not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
• Syn:
cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish,
pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
• Similar to:
ill-natured
• Derivationally related forms:
tetchiness (for: tetchy), testiness (for: testy), petulance (for: petulant), pettishness (for: pettish), peevishness (for: peevish), irritability (for: irritable), fractiousness, crank (for: cranky), crankiness (for: cranky)
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
• Similar to:
difficult, hard

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  refractory, recalcitrant