frac·tious /ˈfrækʃəs/
(a.)易怒的,倔強的,脾氣不好的,難以對待的
Frac·tious a. 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.
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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"