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fractious

Dictionary definition · fractious

adjective

  1. stubbornly resistant to authority or control"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"
  2. easily irritated or annoyed"an incorrigibly fractious young man"
  3. unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).