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1 fractious
adjective* * *frac·tious[ˈfrækʃəs]\fractious child quengeliges Kind fam* * *['frkʃəs]adjverdrießlich; child aufsässig* * *fractious [ˈfrækʃəs] adj (adv fractiously)1. mürrisch, zänkisch, reizbar2. widerspenstig, störrisch (besonders Tier)* * *adjective* * *adj.mürrisch adj. -
2 fractious
\fractious child quengeliges Kind ( fam) -
3 civakodó
(DE) zankhaft; zänkisch; (EN) bickering; brawling; cantankerous; crabby; cross-grained; fractious; frumpish; loggerhead; nagging; pugnacious; quarrelsome; rambunctious; rantankerous; scrappy; shrewish; squabbling; vixenish; vixenly; wrangling -
4 csökönyös
(DE) Dickkopf {r}; bockig; querköpfig; stur; störrisch; (EN) balky; bull-headed; bullet-headed; fractious; froward; impracticable; jiibbing; mule-headed; mulish; obstinate; ornery; overthwart; perverse; pig-headed; pighead; pigheaded; pot-bound; restive; rusty; self-opinionated; stomachous; stubborn; stunkard; wayward -
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(DE) Verdrossenheit {e}; verdrossen; muckisch; trutzig; (EN) fractious; like a bear with a sore head; peevish; sulky -
6 ijedős
(DE) scheu; schreckhaft; graulich; (EN) alarmable; bird-eyed; easily frightened; fractious; jittery; liver-hearted; milquetoastish; scary; shy; skittish; timorous; weak-kneed -
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(DE) Gallenkrankheit {e}; Jähzorn {r}; Verdrossenheit {e}; brummig; entzündbar; rammdösig; reizbar; verdrossen; (EN) bilious; chippy; cross as two sticks; excitable; fractious; fretful; fudgy; gingery; grumpy; hasty; hot-tempered; ill-humored; ill-humoured; inflammable; irascible; irascoble; irritable; like a bear with a sore head; nettlesome; neurotic; peevish; peppery; perturbable; perverse; pettish; petulant; prickly; spleenful; spleeny; techy; testy; tetchy; touchy; waspish -
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(DE) kurrig; muckerisch; muckisch; murrköpfig; (EN) be in a pet; crabby; criss-cross; cross-grained; dour; fractious; frumpish; shirty; sullen -
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(EN) fliting; fractious; squabbling -
10 sértődős
(EN) be apt to take offence; fractious; touchy
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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
