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English - Turkish
Definition of fractious in English Turkish dictionary
- kavgacı
- huysuz
- aksi
- {s} serkeş
- çocuk terbiyesizliği
- aksilik
- {s} inatçı
- {s} ters
- {s} dik kafalı
- sinirli
- fractiousness
- serkeşlik
- fractiousness
- {i} huysuzluk
- fractiousness
- {i} dik kafalılık
- fractiousness
- {i} aksilik
Related Terms
English - English
Definition of fractious in English English dictionary
- irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome
in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.
- given to troublemaking
- {a} cross, peevish, quarrelsome, strange
- disapproval If you describe someone as fractious, you disapprove of them because they become upset or angry very quickly about small unimportant things. Nancy was in a fractious mood The children were predictably fractious. someone who is fractious becomes angry very easily = irritable (fraction (16-18 centuries))
- unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thigkly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"
- {s} bad-tempered; rebellious, stubborn
- Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse
- easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
- stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
- stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child
- fractiousness
- A peevish or cranky nature
- fractiousness
- The quality of being fractious; trouble-making; unruliness
His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.--F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Chapter 1.
- fractiously
- {a} in a peevish manner
- fractiousness
- {n} crossness, peevishness
- fractiously
- in an irritated manner, crossly
- fractiously
- in a fractious manner; "the horse was behaving fractiously and refused to jump
- fractiously
- In a fractious manner
- fractiousness
- the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of discipline
- fractiousness
- The quality of being fractious; unruliness
Related Terms
fractious
Hyphenation
frac·tiousTurkish pronunciation
fräkşısSynonyms
awkward, captious, crabby, disorderly, fretful, froward, huffy, indocile, indomitable, intractable, irritable, mean, ornery, peevish, perversePronunciation
/ˈfraksʜəs/ /ˈfrækʃəs/
Etymology
() From fraction("discord", now obsolete) + -ousResimler
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