Antonyms for fractious


Grammar : Adj
Spell : frak-shuhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈfræk ʃəs


Definition of fractious

Origin :
  • 1725, from fraction in an obsolete sense of "a brawling, discord" (c.1500) + -ous; probably on model of captious. Related: Fractiously; fractiousness.
  • adj grouchy, cross
Example sentences :
  • Correy mooned around the Arpan sub-base like a fractious child.
  • Extract from : « The Terror from the Depths » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
  • His voice had a fractious tone, as if he combated an unseen tyrant.
  • Extract from : « Country Neighbors » by Alice Brown
  • I'll break you to pieces, James H., if you are fractious; and I've got the weapons to do it with.
  • Extract from : « A Pessimist » by Robert Timsol
  • You are old enough to know better, and yet you behave like a fractious child.
  • Extract from : « Menhardoc » by George Manville Fenn
  • There's a tray for each, of course; but a ball dress is such a fractious thing.
  • Extract from : « Moods » by Louisa May Alcott
  • Here, too, is where the fractious cadets are placed in durance.
  • Extract from : « Pike & Cutlass » by George Gibbs
  • Noel and I will soon be good friends; it is only the fever makes him fractious.
  • Extract from : « Mollie's Prince » by Rosa Nouchette Carey
  • She felt like a fractious child, out of sorts, out of gear, out of temper.
  • Extract from : « Mammon and Co. » by E. F. Benson
  • They had not bread to quiet the fractious hunger cries of their children.
  • Extract from : « Memoirs of John R. Young » by John Young
  • The wives to be left here are becoming disconsolate and fractious.
  • Extract from : « Up the Country » by Emily Eden

Synonyms for fractious

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