Fractious synonyms
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The definition of unruly is someone or something that is out of control or hard to manage.
irritable (related)
In an ill humor; bad-tempered; peevish
Sensitive to touch; easily irritated, as a part of the body
contrary (related)
Opposed; contradictory; inconsistent.
Willfully opposing or resisting what is right, expected, or reasonable:
Able to resist disease
Involving interchange; reciprocal.
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Characterized by or causing trouble, irritation, difficulty, distress, inconvenience, etc.
rebellious (related)
Of or like rebels or rebellion
Having a bad disposition; peevish.
Inclined to be vexed or troubled; peevish.
In a bad-tempered or sulky mood; grumpy
(Slang) Hard to cope with; difficult or troublesome:
The definition of ornery is someone bad tempered or stubborn.
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Contrary; fractious.
Marked by quarreling.
Likely to snap or bite, as a dog.
Irritated, impatient, or exasperated; peevish:
Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.
Bad-tempered; snappish
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good-humored (antonym)
Having or showing good humor; cheerful and agreeable
happy (antonym)
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
nice (antonym)
Conforming to approved social standards; respectable
patient (antonym)
The definition of patient is waiting calmly for however long is needed.
complaisant (antonym)
(Archaic) polite, showing respect
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Resistant to authority or discipline; recalcitrant.
Difficult to manage, deal with, or change to an acceptable condition:
Without law; not regulated by the authority of law
The definition of obstinate is extremely stubborn and determined to have your own way.
The definition of obstreperous is someone that is noisy and hard to control.
Difficult to manage or deal with:
Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.
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Difficult to carry or maneuver; unwieldy:
Improper; unseemly:
Not inhabited or farmed:
out-of-line
control (related)
A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of an experiment. In an experiment to test the effectiveness of a new drug, for example, one group of subjects (the control group) receives an inactive substance or placebo , while a comparison group receives the drug being tested.
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order (related)
A group of organisms ranking above a family and below a class.
peace (related)
Not submitting to discipline or control
resist (related)
Not submitting to discipline or control
(Chiefly Brit.) Somewhat hungry
Peevish; petulant; cross
The definition of petulant is someone who gets irritated without a good reason.
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Marked by or consisting of scratches:
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
indecisive (related)
dispirit (related)
Find another word for fractious. In this page you can discover 54 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for fractious, like: unruly, irritable, touchy, contrary, perverse, refractory, cross, troublesome, rebellious, cranky and fretful.