Associations to the word «Fractious»

Wiktionary

FRACTIOUS, adjective. Given to troublemaking
FRACTIOUS, adjective. Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome

Dictionary definition

FRACTIOUS, adjective. Stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child".
FRACTIOUS, adjective. Easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen".
FRACTIOUS, adjective. Unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome; "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn