<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness</li><li>Synonyms: difficult, stubborn</li><li>readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man</li><li>Synonyms: touchy, waspish, pettish, snappish, petulant, captious, testy</li></ul>