1. fractious - Adjective
2. fractious - Adjective Satellite
Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn 1615 the British Isles had been an economically unremarkable, politically fractious and strategically second-class entity. Two hundred years later Great Britain had acquired the largest empire the world had ever seen, encompassing forty-three colonies in five continents. Niall Ferguson
an incorrigibly fractious young man Source: Internet
not the least nettlesome of his countrymen Source: Internet
rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas Source: Internet
fractious components of a communication system Source: Internet
a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness Source: Internet