Main entry: fractious
Definition: unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
Usage: rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas; fractious components of a communication system
Main entry: fractious, cranky, scratchy, irritable, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, nettlesome, techy, testy, tetchy
Definition: easily irritated or annoyed
Usage: an incorrigibly fractious young man; not the least nettlesome of his countrymen
Main entry: fractious, recalcitrant, refractory
Definition: stubbornly resistant to authority or control
Usage: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness; a refractory child