We found 26 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word fractious:
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
- fractious: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
- fractious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- fractious: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- fractious: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Fractious: Wiktionary [home, info]
- fractious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- fractious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- fractious: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- Fractious, fractious: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- fractious: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- fractious: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- fractious: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Fractious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- fractious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- fractious: Rhymezone [home, info]
- fractious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- fractious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- fractious: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- fractious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
- fractious: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- fractious: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- fractious: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- fractious: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- fractious: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- fractious: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
- fractious: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (fractious)
▸ adjective: stubbornly resistant to authority or control ("A fractious animal that would not submit to the harness")
▸ adjective: unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome ("Rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas")
▸ adjective: easily irritated or annoyed ("An incorrigibly fractious young man")
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