Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Fractious

frac-tious (frkshs)

adjective
1. Peevishly resistant to authority and control.
People, who act out their identities as anarchists by putting forth a fractious contrarian attitude toward everything from cheese crackers to St. Patrick's Day, give anarchy a bad name and ruin it for the rest of us.
2. Easily irritated or annoyed.
I don't know if talking to him put me in a fractious way or if I'm just PMSing.

Synonyms:
belligerent, bitchy, captious, crabby, fretful, huffy, indomitable, intractable, irritable mean, ornery, peevish, petulant, recalcitrant, restive, scrappy, snappish, testy, touchy.

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