Adjective: fractious frak-shus
- Easily irritated or annoyed
"an incorrigibly fractious young man";
- cranky [informal], irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish [N. Amer, informal], pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy, pouty, narky [Brit, slang]
- Stubbornly resistant to authority or control
"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness";
- refractory, recalcitrant, incalcitrant [non-standard]
- 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"
See also: difficult, disobedient, hard, ill-natured