Word Meanings - FRACTIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse. Syn. -- Snappish; peevish; waspish; cross; irritable; perverse; pettish. -- Frac"tious*ly, v. -- Frac"tious*ness, n.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FRACTIOUS)
- Cross
- Ill-tempered
- fretful
- illhumored
- crusty
- peevish
- pettish
- snarling
- snappish
- spleeny
- splenetic
- petulant
- fractious
- Fretful
- Irritable
- impatient
- waspish
- Perverse
- Froward
- untoward
- stubborn
- wayward
- unmanageable
- intractable
- crochety
Related words: (words related to FRACTIOUS)
- CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - SNARL
To form raised work upon the outer surface of by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface. - SPLEENY
1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - IRRITABLE
Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. (more info) 1. Capable of being irriated. 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, - ILL-TEMPERED
1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys. - CROSSBREED
1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. - CROSSLEGGED
Having the legs crossed. - CROSS-VAULTING
Vaulting formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults. - CROSSHEAD
A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it - CROSS-BUTTOCK
A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. - CROSS-CROSSLET
A cross having the three upper ends crossed, so as to from three small crosses. - CROSSWORT
A name given to several inconspicuous plants having leaves in whorls of four, as species of Crucianella, Valantia, etc. - CROSS-TAIL
A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine. - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - INSNARL
To make into a snarl or knot; to entangle; to snarl. Cotgrave. - AWAYWARD
Turned away; away. Chaucer. - ENSNARL
To entangle. Spenser.