frac·tious

(frăk′shəs)

adj.

1. Inclined to make trouble; unruly.

2. Having a peevish nature; cranky.

[From fraction, discord (obsolete).]

frac′tious·ly adv.

frac′tious·ness n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

$fractiousness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline$ fractiousness - the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline

unruliness, wilfulness, willfulness

intractability, intractableness - the trait of being hard to influence or control

contrariness, perverseness, perversity - deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline

wildness - an unruly disposition to do as one pleases; "Liza had always had a tendency to wildness"; "the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention"

fractiousness

noun

The quality or condition of being unruly:

disorderliness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness, wildness.

Translations

eccitabilità

fractiousness

n → Verdrießlichkeit f; (of child) → Aufsässigkeit f

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References in classic literature

Again he strove for playfulness of speech, but it was too great a moment for even love fractiousness to enter in.

View in context

"Katy don't amoose me; and I must be amoosed, 'cause I 'm fwactious; mamma said I was!" sobbed Maud, evidently laboring under the delusion that fractiousness was some interesting malady.

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Microgrids

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Yet those you'd expect to be hailing this relief from fractiousness of the past see in Oli a single successor to the dozen 'potentates' that replaced the maligned monarchy.

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She further appealed to Malaysians to forge ties that build and strengthen national resilience and to avoid divisiveness and fractiousness as these were recipes for the erosion of unity.

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He emerges as a contentious poetic subject, a figure of battle romance, and an emblem of modernist fragmentation and fractiousness. Centering the work of five exemplary Canadian war poets (Helena Coleman, John McCrae, Robert Service, Frank Prewett, and W.W.E.

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