Fractious can be categorized as an adjective.
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| fractious - stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" | ||
| fractious - 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" | ||
| fractious - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" |
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| 1. | adj. | A fractious animal that would not submit to the harness. | |
| 2. | adj. | Rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas. | |
| 3. | adj. | Fractious components of a communication system. | |
| 4. | adj. | An incorrigibly fractious young man. | |
| 5. | adj. | A fractious child is a troublesome thing to deal with, but a fractious man is far worse. | |
| 6. | adj. | You're as fractious as Tom. | |
| 7. | adj. | To him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information. |
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| A fractious animal that would not submit to the harness. |
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| Rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas. |
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| Fractious components of a communication system. |
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| An incorrigibly fractious young man. |
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| A fractious child is a troublesome thing to deal with, but a fractious man is far worse. | |
| You're as fractious as Tom. | |
| To him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information. | |