| 单词 | fractious |
| 释义 | fractious (once / 6848 pages) adj If you're prone to picking fights, making snarky comments, and being frustratingly stubborn, you're fractious. And odds are you're not invited to too many parties. Someone who is fractious is cranky, rebellious and inclined to cause problems. Tempers and children are commonly described as such. In To Kill A Mockingbird, author Harper Lee uses the word to describe the trouble-making Calpurnia: "She had always been too hard on me, she had at last seen the error of her fractious ways, she was sorry and too stubborn to say so." WORD FAMILYfractious: fractiously, fractiousness USAGE EXAMPLESThe clash just four weeks before Mr. Obama leaves office culminated a fractious eight years between the men. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) But as they showed again on Thursday, the agency’s fractious commissioners do not seem to understand that. New York Times(Dec 08, 2016) Southern Command, which spanned some of the more fractious debate over the Obama administration’s ultimately failed attempt to close Guantanamo. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) 1adj easily irritated or annoyed an incorrigibly fractious young man Syn cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition 2adj stubbornly resistant to authority or control a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness Syn recalcitrant, refractory disobedient not obeying or complying with commands of those in authority 3adj 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 Syn difficult, hard not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure |
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