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Adjective fractious has 3 senses
- fractious, refractory - stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
Antonym: obedient (indirect, via disobedient)
- cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, testy, tetchy, techy - easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
Antonym: good-natured (indirect, via ill-natured)
- fractious - unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thigkly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"
Antonym: easy (indirect, via difficult)
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