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fractious 音标拼音: [fr'ækʃəs] a. 易怒的,倔强的,脾气不好的,难以对待的 易怒的,倔强的,脾气不好的,难以对待的 fractious adj 1: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; " a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; " a refractory child" [ synonym: { fractious}, { refractory}, { recalcitrant}] 2: easily irritated or annoyed; " an incorrigibly fractious young man"; " not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [ synonym: { cranky}, { fractious}, { irritable}, { nettlesome}, { peevish}, { peckish}, { pettish}, { petulant}, { scratchy}, { testy}, { tetchy}, { techy}] 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" 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] 134 Moby Thesaurus words for " fractious": adversary, adversative, adverse, alien, antagonistic, anti, antipathetic, antithetic, at odds, averse, bearish, beyond control, bitchy, breachy, cankered, cantankerous, churlish, clashing, competitive, complaining, con, conflicting, contradictory, contrary, contumacious, counter, crabbed, cranky, cross, cross- grained, crusty, cursory, cussed, defiant, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disinclined, disobedient, disputatious, disputing, dissentient, dissenting, enemy, excitable, feisty, forced, fretful, hostile, huffish, huffy, impatient of control, incorrigible, indisposed, indocile, indomitable, inimical, insuppressible, intractable, involuntary, irascible, irrepressible, irritable, mean, mutinous, negative, noncooperative, objecting, obstinate, obstreperous, obstructive, on the barricades, opponent, opposed, opposing, opposite, oppositional, oppositive, oppugnant, ornery, out of hand, overthwart, peevish, perfunctory, perverse, pettish, petulant, proof against, protesting, querulous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, reluctant, renitent, repellent, repugnant, resistant, resisting, resistive, restive, retardant, retardative, rival, shrewish, snappish, spiteful, spleeny, splenetic, sulky, sullen, testy, ugly, unbiddable, unconsenting, uncontrollable, uncooperative, undisciplined, unfavorable, unfriendly, ungovernable, unmalleable, unmanageable, unmoldable, unpropitious, unruly, unsubmissive, unwilling, unyielding, up in arms, waspish, wild, withstanding
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