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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