English-Thai Dictionary

fractious

ADJ เจ้าอารมณ์  ขี้โมโห  โกรธ ง่าย  cross irritable peevish jao-ar-rom

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FRACTIOUS

a.Apt to break out into a passion; apt to quarrel; cross; snappish; as a fractious man.

 

FRACTIOUSLY

adv. Passionately; snappishly.

 

FRACTIOUSNESS

n.A cross or snappish temper.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

FRACTIOUS

Frac "tious, a. Etym: [Cf. Prov. E. frack forward, eager, E. freak, fridge; or Prov. E. fratch to squabble, quarrel. ]

 

Defn: Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.

 

Syn. -- Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse; pettish. -- Frac "tious *ly, v. -- Frac "tious *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

fractious

frac tious |ˈfrakSHəs ˈfrækʃəs | ▶adjective (typically of children ) irritable and quarrelsome: they fight and squabble like fractious children. • (of a group or organization ) difficult to control; unruly: the fractious coalition of Social Democrats. DERIVATIVES frac tious ly adverb, frac tious ness noun ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from fraction, probably on the pattern of the pair faction, factious .

 

Oxford Dictionary

fractious

fractious |ˈfrakʃəs | ▶adjective (typically of children ) irritable and quarrelsome: they fight and squabble like fractious children. • (of a group or organization ) difficult to control; unruly: King Malcolm struggled to unite his fractious kingdom. DERIVATIVES fractiously adverb, fractiousness noun ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from fraction, probably on the pattern of the pair faction, factious .

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

fractious

fractious adjective 1 fractious children: grumpy, bad-tempered, irascible, irritable, crotchety, grouchy, cantankerous, short-tempered, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly, ill-tempered, ill-humored, peevish, cross, waspish, crabby, crusty, prickly, touchy; informal snappish, cranky, ornery. ANTONYMS contented, affable. 2 the fractious opposition party: wayward, unruly, uncontrollable, unmanageable, out of hand, obstreperous, difficult, headstrong, recalcitrant, intractable; disobedient, insubordinate, disruptive, disorderly, undisciplined; contrary, willful; formal refractory; archaic contumacious. ANTONYMS dutiful.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

fractious

fractious adjective 1 they fight and squabble like fractious children: grumpy, grouchy, crotchety, in a (bad ) mood, cantankerous, bad-tempered, ill-tempered, ill-natured, ill-humoured, peevish, having got out of bed the wrong side, cross, as cross as two sticks, disagreeable, pettish; irritable, irascible, tetchy, testy, curmudgeonly; crabbed, crabby, waspish, prickly, peppery, touchy, scratchy, crusty, splenetic, shrewish, short-tempered, hot-tempered, quick-tempered, dyspeptic, choleric, bilious, liverish, cross-grained; informal snappish, snappy, chippy, on a short fuse, short-fused; Brit. informal shirty, stroppy, narky, ratty, eggy, like a bear with a sore head; N. Amer. informal cranky, ornery, peckish, soreheaded; Austral. /NZ informal snaky; informal, dated waxy, miffy. ANTONYMS contented; affable. 2 the National Olympic Committee has to hold its fractious members together: wayward, unruly, uncontrollable, unmanageable, out of hand, obstreperous, difficult, headstrong, refractory, recalcitrant, intractable; disobedient, insubordinate, disruptive, disorderly, undisciplined, troublemaking, rebellious, mutinous, anarchic; defiant, stubborn, obstinate, contrary, wilful; archaic contumacious. ANTONYMS dutiful.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

fractious

frac tious /frǽkʃəs /形容詞 1 ｟非難して ｠〈人が 〉怒りっぽい, 短気な .2 〈関係などが 〉壊れやすい, 不安定な .3 手に負えない, 度しがたい .～ly 副詞 ～ness 名詞