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1 ćudljiv
• bizzare; corky; crotchy; fanciful; fickle; finical; finicking; finicky; finikin; fitful; fractious; freakish; humoursome; jerky; perverse; pettish; petulant; restive; reticent; rusty; silent; skittish; speechless; techy; testy; tetchy; tiffish; tongueless; uncertain; vagrant; vaporous -
2 jogunast
• capricious; contrary; fractious; froward; hard bitted; hard-bitted; headstrong; indocile; jaunty; obstinate; recalcitrant; refractory; restive; rusty; stubborn; sullen; unruly; untoward; vicious; wayward -
3 ljut
• angry; arrant; austere; biting; bitter; caustic; choleric; cranky; cross; cutting; displeased; ferocious; fiery; fractious; frantic; gingery; grim; hot; hotly; in a bed temper; in a pet; inclement; irate; ireful; mad; mordant; peppery; pettish; petulant; pungent; r; ratty; rigorous; rude -
4 neposlušan
• contumacious; defiant; disobedient; fractious; froward; indocile; insubordinate; mischievous; naughty; obstreperous; rebellious; recalcitrant; refractory; restive; unconformable; undutiful; unfilial; unobservant; unruly; wayward -
5 prgav
• combustible; fractious; hoity-toity; quarrelsome; short; snappish -
6 svadljiv
• cantankerous; captious; contentious; disputatious; fractious; peevish; pugnacious; quarrelsome; shrewish; termagant; waspish -
7 tvrdoglav
• asinine; blockish; contumacious; defficult; dogged; fractious; headstrong; intractable; misguided; mulish; nice; obdurate; obstinate; opinion; opinionated; opinionativ; opinionative; pertinacious; perverse; piggish; pigheaded; recalcitrant; refractory; restive; rusty; self-opioni
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
