Words with a similar base: fractious

'fractious'
[fractious.s.01] as in: stubbornly resistant to authority or control

Examples:
a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness
a refractory child


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'fractious'
[cranky.s.02] as in: easily irritated or annoyed

Examples:
an incorrigibly fractious young man
not the least nettlesome of his countrymen


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'fractious'
[fractious.s.03] as in: unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome

Examples:
rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas
fractious components of a communication system


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fractious (English)
├── -ous (English)
└── fraction (English)
    └── fraccioun (Middle English (1100-1500))

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