Fractious is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FRACTIOUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• troublesome, irritable
• (typically of children) irritable and quarrelsome
• (of a group or organization) difficult to control; unruly
• easily upset and angered
• Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
• stubbornly resistant to authority or control
• easily irritated or annoyed
• unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• tending to be troublesom; unruly

Words related to FRACTIOUS

fractiously19 fractiousness18 fractiousnesses20

Words that contain FRACTIOUS

fractiously19 fractiousness18 fractiousnesses20

How to use FRACTIOUS in a sentence

• Its manner was peevish and fractious, its tones sharp and harsh, and its actions rough and hasty.
• The commonest way of convincing the newcomer that he has made a mistake is to persuade him to ride an exceptionally fractious pony.
• Like a new baby, a new thought is fractious, restless, and incalculable.
• He got fractious and nervous, and I was obliged to let him go into the streets.
• Let us come back to Pheasantina, who, I am told, was a delicate and somewhat fractious infant, giving to both father and mother considerable cause for anxiety.
• Never was there a more fractious patient than Du Meresq as he lay listlessly on the sofa, while the bone reunited.
• Opposite, a tired-looking mother sat with two fractious children, going home from the fair.
• He appeared to think me excitable, and used soothing expressions as if I were a fractious child to be calmed, rather than a sane equal to be reasoned with.
• An hour later he learned of the death of his uncle, who had been thrown from a fractious horse, not far from Mink Run, and had broken his neck in the fall.
• It is because a man is so miserable that he is such a sour, suspicious, fractious, petted creature.
• Segrave was burning with impatience, Lord Walterton was getting more and more fractious, whilst Sir Michael Isherwood viewed the young secretary with marked hauteur.
• Perhaps the infants were fractious because there was no tea.
• But when a bad mood is on, when a person is bilious, fractious, ugly, cross, you hate him.
• He is just the wee-est bit fractious, as he is cutting a tooth.
• One day she saw him ride a fractious horse, not because he was fond of riding, but because nobody in the stables could cope with this animal.
• If the horse be excited and fractious, all the more reason why the cadet should capture the beast and mount instantly.
• This, despite more than usually fractious behaviour upon the part of the Boche.
• Presently Betsy Baker became fractious, and sought to throw her rider.
• Her fractious state of mind did not tend to soothe the headache she had complained of earlier in the day.
• It had seemed that her fractious temper kept the sleep away.
• They are odd, fractious people at first, curiously concerned about health and occupation and one can often do nothing but listen to their complaints.
• One day, while hauling dirt with a fractious horse, the animal manifested an unwillingness to perform his duty satisfactorily.
• Deveral becomes fractious, the Fete entertainment falls through and Judy decides to run away with the unpleasant Rodney.
• One of the cow-boys, in hot pursuit of a fractious heifer, encountered a gopher-hole, and horse and rider were down in a heap.

Similar words containing FRACTIOU without suffix s

fractiously19 fractiousness18 fractiousnesses20

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