fractious
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
fractious
adj 1: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a
fractious animal that would not submit to the harness";
"a refractory child" [syn: {fractious}, {refractory},
{recalcitrant}]
2: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young
man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn:
{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"
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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