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fractious

  • 1 mürrisch

    Adj. grumpy, surly; (wortkarg) sullen
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    spleenful; fractious; cantankerous; dour; sulky; sullen; surly; crusty; crabby; morose
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    mụ̈r|risch ['mʏrɪʃ]
    1. adj
    (= abweisend) sullen, morose, surly; (= schlecht gelaunt) grumpy
    2. adv
    (= abweisend) sullenly, morosely, surlily; (= schlecht gelaunt) grumpily
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    1) ((seeming to be) unfriendly: a gruff old man.) gruff
    3) (bad-tempered: a grumpy old man.) grumpy
    4) (the clothes worn by a man for very formal events (eg weddings) held during the day.) morning dress
    6) (angry and silent.) morose
    8) (silent and bad-tempered: a sullen young man; a sullen expression.) sullen
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    mür·risch
    [ˈmʏrɪʃ]
    I. adj grumpy, surly
    II. adv grumpily, surlily, in a grumpy [or surly] manner
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    1.
    Adjektiv grumpy; surly, sullen < expression>
    2.
    adverbial grumpily
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    mürrisch adj grumpy, surly; (wortkarg) sullen
    * * *
    1.
    Adjektiv grumpy; surly, sullen < expression>
    2.
    adverbial grumpily
    * * *
    adj.
    cantankerous adj.
    crabby adj.
    crusty adj.
    dour adj.
    fractious adj.
    glum adj.
    morose adj.
    sulky adj.
    sullen adj.
    surly adj. adv.
    cantankerously adv.
    crabbily adv.
    crustily adv.
    dourly adv.
    fractiously adv.
    glumly adv.
    sullenly adv.

    Deutsch-Englisch Wörterbuch > mürrisch

  • 2 aufsässig

    1. defiant
    2. fractious [child]
    3. insubordinate
    4. insubordinately adv
    5. rebellious
    6. rebelliously
    7. recalcitrant
    8. refractory

    Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > aufsässig

  • 3 mürrisch

    1. cantankerous
    2. cantankerously adv
    3. crabbed adj [person]
    4. crabbily adv
    5. crabby
    6. crustily adv
    7. crusty [person]
    8. dour
    9. dourly adv
    10. fractious
    11. fractiously adv
    12. glum
    13. glumly
    14. morose
    15. morosely adv
    16. po-faced Br. sl.
    17. spleenful
    18. sulky adj
    19. sullen
    20. sullenly adv
    21. surly adj

    Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > mürrisch

  • 4 verdrießlich

    1. dour
    2. dourly adv
    3. fractious
    4. glum
    5. glumly adv
    6. grumpy adj coll.
    7. irksome
    8. morose
    9. morosely adv
    10. peevish
    11. peevishly
    12. petulantly adv
    13. petulant adj
    14. splenetic
    15. surlily
    16. vexatious

    Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > verdrießlich

  • 5 zänkisch

    1. cantankerous
    2. cantankerously
    3. fractious
    4. quarrelsome
    5. quarrelsomely
    6. vixenish
    7. vixenishly adv

    Deutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > zänkisch

См. также в других словарях:

  • Fractious — Frac tious, a. [Cf. Prov. E. frack forward, eager, E. freak, fridge; or Prov. E. fratch to squabble, quarrel.] Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. Syn: Snappish;… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • fractious — I adjective apt to quarrel, bad tempered, bearish, bickering, cantankerous, captious, carping, caviling, choleric, churlish, complaining, contentious, contrary, crabby, cranky, cross, cross grained, crusty, difficilis, difficult, disposed to… …   Law dictionary

  • fractious — 1725, from FRACTION (Cf. fraction) in an obsolete sense of a brawling, discord (c.1500) + OUS (Cf. ous); probably on model of captious. Related: Fractiously; fractiousness …   Etymology dictionary

  • fractious — *irritable, peevish, snappish, waspish, petulant, pettish, huffy, fretful, querulous Analogous words: *unruly, refractory, recalcitrant, ungovernable, intractable, willful: perverse, Contrary, froward, restive, wayward Contrasted words:… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • fractious — [adj] grouchy, cross awkward, captious, crabby*, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy*, indocile, indomitable, intractable, irritable, mean, ornery*, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, querulous, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, scrappy,… …   New thesaurus

  • fractious — ► ADJECTIVE 1) easily irritated. 2) difficult to control. DERIVATIVES fractiously adverb fractiousness noun. ORIGIN from FRACTION(Cf. ↑fraction), probably on the pattern of faction, factious …   English terms dictionary

  • fractious — [frak′shəs] adj. [prob. < FRACTION (in obs. sense “discord”) + OUS] 1. hard to manage; unruly; rebellious; refractory 2. peevish; irritable; cross fractiously adv. fractiousness n …   English World dictionary

  • fractious — [[t]fræ̱kʃəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you describe someone as fractious, you disapprove of them because they become upset or angry very quickly about small unimportant things. ...fractious national movements. ...in a fractious mood... The …   English dictionary

  • fractious — factious, factitious, fractious Factious means ‘characterized by faction or dissension’, as in factious quarrelling, whereas factitious means ‘contrived, artificial’, as in factitious reasoning; both words are related to Latin facere ‘to do’ but… …   Modern English usage

  • fractious — frac|tious [ˈfrækʃəs] adj [Date: 1600 1700; Origin: fraction lack of agreement (16 18 centuries)] someone who is fractious becomes angry very easily = ↑irritable ▪ Children become fractious when they are tired. fractious baby/child etc… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • fractious — fractiously, adv. fractiousness, n. /frak sheuhs/, adj. 1. refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness. 2. readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man. [1715 25;… …   Universalium

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