Found 2 items, similar to fractious.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: fractious fractious adj 1: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; “a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness”; “a refractory child” [syn: refractory] 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, testy, tetchy, techy] 3: unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; “rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thigkly populated areas”; “fractious components of a communication system”
English → English (gcide) Definition: Fractious Fractious \Frac"tious\, a. [Cf. Prov. E. frack forward, eager, E. freak, fridge; or Prov. E. fratch to squabble, quarrel.] Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. Syn: Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse; pettish. -- Frac"tious*ly, v. -- Frac"tious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]