What is another word for fractious?
663 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ fɹˈakʃəs], [ fɹˈakʃəs], [ f_ɹ_ˈa_k_ʃ_ə_s]
Table of Contents
Similar words for fractious:
- all (adjective)
- cross (adjective)
- crotchety (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- disobedient (adjective)
- disorderly (adjective)
- fractious (adjective)
- fretful (adjective)
- hidebound (adjective)
- huffy (adjective)
- indocile (adjective)
- insubordinate (adjective)
- intolerant (adjective)
- intractable (adjective)
- irascible (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- naughty (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- perverse (adjective)
- petulant (adjective)
- quarrelsome (adjective)
- rebellious (adjective)
- recalcitrant (adjective)
- surly (adjective)
- uncontrollable (adjective)
- ungovernable (adjective)
- unruly (adjective)
- untoward (adjective)
- vulgar (adjective)
- wayward (adjective)
- willful (adjective)
- fractious (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Fractious:
adj.
• all (adjective) • cross (adjective)- splenetic,
- annoyed,
- impatient,
- disagreeable,
- put out,
- ill-humored,
- peeved,
- grumpy,
- cantankerous,
- churlish,
- sullen,
- faultfinding,
- jumpy,
- caviling,
- short,
- vexed.
- dark,
- boorish,
- impolite,
- argumentative,
- tiresome,
- trying,
- grim,
- unaccommodating,
- fastidious,
- unamenable,
- rigid,
- tough,
- oafish,
- hard to please,
- rude.
- raucous,
- rowdy,
- stormy,
- boisterous,
- turbulent,
- noisy,
- drunk,
- intemperate,
- riotous.
- captious,
- snappish,
- uncompliant,
- thin-skinned,
- scrappy,
- awkward,
- huffy,
- fretful,
- wayward,
- froward,
- touchy,
- indomitable,
- mean.
- hurt,
- provoked,
- resentful,
- irked,
- sulky,
- exasperated,
- nettled,
- angered,
- Piqued,
- curt,
- stewed,
- riled,
- disgruntled,
- miffed,
- insulted,
- Moping,
- offended.
- communist,
- inflexible,
- dictatorial,
- individualistic,
- illiberal,
- uncharitable,
- dogmatic,
- fanatical,
- antipathetic,
- outraged,
- racist,
- indignant,
- stuffy,
- small-minded,
- obdurate,
- irate,
- upset,
- narrow,
- xenophobic,
- averse,
- conservative,
- bigoted,
- narrow-minded,
- unsympathetic,
- unforbearing,
- hateful,
- unfair,
- unindulgent,
- unwilling,
- contemptuous,
- tilted,
- disdainful,
- one-sided,
- biased.
- in-curable,
- most bull headed,
- more bull-headed,
- re solute,
- in-soluble,
- in soluble,
- pig headed,
- bull headed,
- un cooperative,
- re-solute,
- un-cooperative,
- more bull headed,
- in tractable,
- un bending,
- in-compliant,
- in-tractable,
- un-bending,
- most bull-headed,
- in curable,
- in compliant.
- most rascally,
- more rascally,
- in decorous,
- impish,
- teasing,
- more exasperating,
- most exasperating,
- ex asperating,
- in-decorous,
- ex-asperating.
- dissentious,
- naughty,
- uncontrollable,
- petulant,
- out-of-line,
- rebellious,
- up set,
- wrecker,
- hard line,
- tough nut,
- out of humor,
- insubordinate,
- ructious,
- perverse,
- off-base,
- racialist,
- cross,
- untoward,
- out of line,
- huffish,
- ungovernable,
- self-willed,
- quarrelsome,
- Unpliable,
- grousing,
- badly behaved,
- worked-up,
- indocile,
- insubmissive,
- uncomplying,
- short-fuse,
- indisciplined,
- undisciplinable,
- disobedient,
- misfortunate,
- NAR,
- locked in,
- cat-and-dog,
- irascible,
- restive,
- gladiatorial,
- disorderly,
- vulgar,
- peevish,
- chauvinistic,
- warrer,
- bull-headed,
- on-a-tear,
- anarchistic,
- intolerant,
- pettish,
- hottempered,
- recalcitrant,
- crotchety,
- hardnosed,
- termagant,
- difficult,
- stiff-necked,
- out-of-order,
- willful,
- rascally,
- prickly,
- surly,
- out-of-sorts.
- ill natured,
- fault finding,
- more growling,
- illnatured,
- most cussed,
- most growling,
- more grousing,
- most out of sorts,
- more cussed,
- most out-of-sorts,
- more out-of-sorts,
- most grousing,
- more out of sorts,
- most whining,
- more whining.
- most self willed,
- un healthier,
- selfwilled,
- un reasonable,
- most self-willed,
- more self willed,
- un healthy,
- de generate,
- un-healthy,
- un yielding,
- un-yielding,
- self willed,
- more self-willed,
- un-healthiest,
- more selfwilled,
- most selfwilled,
- un-reasonable,
- un healthiest,
- hard nosed,
- de-generate.
- more pouting,
- whiny,
- dis pleased,
- more crybaby,
- un gracious,
- un-gracious,
- whiniest,
- most pouting,
- most crybaby,
- whinier,
- dis-pleased.
- most gladiatorial,
- cat and dog,
- more gladiatorial,
- have chip shoulder,
- most cat and dog,
- more cat-and-dog,
- most brawling,
- more cat and dog,
- ex citable,
- have chip on shoulder,
- most ructious,
- more brawling,
- more ructious,
- ex-citable,
- most cat-and-dog,
- warrest.
- dis-loyal,
- most sabotaging,
- more attacking,
- most rioting,
- more insurrectionary,
- more sabotaging,
- more rioting,
- in corrigible,
- in-corrigible,
- most attacking,
- dis loyal,
- most anarchistic,
- more anarchistic,
- most insurrectionary.
- more undisciplinable,
- un-disciplinable,
- with standing,
- more insubmissive,
- most withstanding,
- most insubmissive,
- in submissive,
- most undisciplinable,
- with-standing,
- more withstanding,
- in-submissive,
- un disciplinable.
- in opportune,
- more misfortunate,
- in-opportune,
- un pliablest,
- ill starred,
- un pliable,
- un favorable,
- un lucky,
- un-fortunate,
- un-timely,
- Star-crossed,
- un-pliable,
- un-favorable,
- mis fortunate,
- un pliabler,
- un happy,
- most misfortunate,
- un happier,
- in-convenient,
- un fortunate,
- un timeliest,
- in convenient,
- un-timelier,
- unpliabler,
- un happiest,
- un-timeliest,
- un timely,
- un-luckier,
- un-happy,
- un luckier,
- in-auspicious,
- un-pliablest,
- un propitious,
- un timelier,
- illstarred,
- starcrossed,
- unpliablest,
- in auspicious,
- mis-fortunate,
- un-lucky,
- un luckiest,
- un-pliabler,
- star crossed.
n.
-
•
- troublesome.
Other synonyms:
-
•
- crabbed,
- censorious,
- judgmental,
- high-maintenance,
- hot-tempered,
- undisciplined,
- curmudgeonly,
- pedantic,
- grouchy,
- querulous,
- hypercritical,
- peppery,
- Hot-headed,
- picky,
- crabby,
- unforgiving,
- petty,
- quick-tempered,
- choosy,
- pernickety,
- crusty,
- short-tempered,
- nagging,
- ill-tempered,
- pedantry,
- insatiable,
- choleric,
- fussy,
- jaundiced,
- snappy.
-
•
- bilious,
- persnickety,
- uptight,
- ratty,
- obstreperous,
- bad-tempered,
- foul,
- demanding,
- temperamental,
- finicky,
- restless,
- intractable,
- miserable.
-
•
- fiery,
- particular,
- lawless.
- rough,
- ill-humoured,
- dissident,
- derelict,
- excitable,
- adversary,
- bellicose,
- indisposed,
- independent,
- remiss,
- bitchy,
- Retardative,
- grating,
- insurrectional,
- rival,
- firm,
- unmalleable,
- dissenting,
- hostile,
- counter,
- Cankered,
- opposed,
- wicked,
- Objecting,
- ill-behaved,
- Fault-finding,
- plaguy,
- inflammable,
- antagonistic,
- unpropitious,
- uncooperative,
- negative,
- noncooperative,
- antithetical,
- resistant,
- anti,
- dyspeptic,
- Oppugnant,
- beyond control,
- cussed,
- pesky,
- repugnant,
- retardant,
- spiteful,
- strong-willed,
- plaguey,
- gravelly,
- irritated,
- inimical,
- unfavorable,
- reluctant,
- combative,
- involuntary,
- enemy,
- Insuppressible,
- contradictory,
- shrewish,
- bothersome,
- Resty,
- in a pique,
- Overthwart,
- oppositive,
- protesting,
- pestiferous,
- adversative,
- violent,
- opposite,
- adamant,
- alien,
- forced,
- stubborn,
- revolutionary,
- Resentive,
- unpredictable,
- rampageous,
- opponent,
- crank,
- on edge,
- angry,
- at odds,
- criticizing,
- belligerent,
- pestering,
- Spleeny,
- shirty,
- disagreeing,
- undutiful,
- repellent,
- pugnacious,
- rogue,
- finical,
- rasping,
- whining,
- A,
- unconsenting,
- uneven,
- litigious,
- tender,
- obstructive,
- competitive,
- vindictive,
- conflicting,
- murmuring,
- annoying,
- immovable,
- galling,
- unfavourable,
- unrestrained,
- incorrigible,
- unyielding,
- aggressive,
- vexing,
- sour,
- vexatious,
- abrupt,
- currish,
- wilful,
- perfunctory,
- abrasive,
- unsubmissive,
- tumultuous,
- opposing,
- unfriendly,
- con,
- stiff,
- cynical,
- feisty,
- dissentient,
- stroppy,
- bitching,
- Breachy,
- tempestuous,
- Resisting,
- unbending,
- Withstanding,
- Disaccordant,
- ornery,
- cursory,
- Incompliant,
- oppositional,
- disinclined,
- untamable,
- delinquent,
- insurrectionist,
- Disputing,
- Disregardful,
- out of hand,
- raspy,
- spotty,
- up in arms,
- clashing,
- differing,
- fidgety,
- over-particular,
- antithetic,
- Squabbling,
- tippy,
- irritating,
- liverish,
- Renitent,
- irrepressible,
- disputatious,
- unregulated,
- mischievous.
How to use "Fractious" in context?
People often describe relationships as being "fractious". This word connotes that the two people involved in the relationship are not getting along and are therefore fighting. Fractious relationships can be a source of stress and even pain for both people involved. There are various reasons why relationships may fall into the fractious category. Sometimes one person in the relationship may be intentionally trying to disrupt the relationship. Alternatively, the dynamics of the relationship may gradually deteriorate and become fractious. Regardless of the cause, if a relationship is fractious, it is not working and needs to be fixed. Here are some tips for fixing a fractious relationship: 1.
Word of the Day
more promotive
- Synonyms:
- accessory, contributive, contributory, helpful, leading, promotive, tending, useful, calculated to produce, productive of.
