Definitions for fractious

fractious frac·tious

Spelling: [frak-shuh s]
IPA: /ˈfræk ʃəs/

Fractious is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 631 anagrams from letters in fractious (acfiorstu).

Definitions for fractious

adjective

  1. refractory or unruly:
  2. readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome:

Origin of fractious

First recorded in 1715-25; fracti(on) + -ous

Examples for fractious

I'll break you to pieces, James H., if you are fractious; and I've got the weapons to do it with.

You are old enough to know better, and yet you behave like a fractious child.

The story told on these walls is a fractured and fractious one that consciously resists an easy narrative.

Starting with the House, Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) was largely successful in keeping his fractious caucus largely in check.

Relationships in her "blood family," a distinction her brother pointedly made at her funeral, were often strained and fractious.

We are a troubled and fractious country, in a difficult neighbourhood.

His voice had a fractious tone, as if he combated an unseen tyrant.

Correy mooned around the Arpan sub-base like a fractious child.

There's a tray for each, of course; but a ball dress is such a fractious thing.

He was well aware of the fractious history between Congress and the White House on Gitmo and was determined to start anew.

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