All fractious synonyms
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F f adj fractious
- grouchy — sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
- testy — irritably impatient; touchy.
- unruly — not submissive or conforming to rule; ungovernable; turbulent; intractable; refractory; lawless: an unruly class; an unruly wilderness.
- recalcitrant — resisting authority or control; not obedient or compliant; refractory.
- irritable — easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- unmanageable — that can be managed; governable; tractable; contrivable.
- restive — impatient of control, restraint, or delay, as persons; restless; uneasy.
- awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- captious — apt to make trivial criticisms; fault-finding; carping
- crabby — Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- disorderly — characterized by disorder; irregular; untidy; confused: a disorderly desk.
- fretful — disposed or quick to fret; irritable or peevish.
- froward — willfully contrary; not easily managed: to be worried about one's froward, intractable child.
- huffy — easily offended; touchy.
- indomitable — that cannot be subdued or overcome, as persons, will, or courage; unconquerable: an indomitable warrior.
- intractable — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
- mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- ornery — ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper: No one can get along with my ornery cousin.
- peevish — cross, querulous, or fretful, as from vexation or discontent: a peevish youngster.
- perverse — willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- querulous — full of complaints; complaining.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- snappish — apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
- thin-skinned — having a thin skin.
- touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
- undisciplined — having or exhibiting discipline; rigorous: paintings characterized by a disciplined technique.
- wayward — turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient: a wayward son; wayward behavior.
- wild — living in a state of nature; not tamed or domesticated: a wild animal; wild geese.
- indocile — not willing to receive teaching, training, or discipline; fractious; unruly.
- scrappy — fond of fighting, arguing, or competing.
- uncompliant — complying; obeying, obliging, or yielding, especially in a submissive way: a man with a compliant nature.
adjective fractious
- restless — characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest: a restless mood.
- complaining — to express dissatisfaction, pain, uneasiness, censure, resentment, or grief; find fault: He complained constantly about the noise in the corridor.
- grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
- cross — If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.