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fractious
Synonyms and Antonyms of fractious
- At the end of what was a fractious campaign, the two former rivals were surprisingly able to settle some of their differences and work together.
argumentative, contentious, controversial, disputatious, polemical (also polemic), quarrelsome, scrappy
aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combative, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, truculent, warlike
balky, contrary, ornery, perverse, restive, wayward
disobedient, froward, insubordinate, intractable, recalcitrant, refractory
hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pigheaded, resistant, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, unreasonable, unyielding, willful (or wilful)
acidic, bearish, bilious, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, disagreeable, dyspeptic, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, huffy, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, peevish, pettish, petulant, querulous, rude, snappish, snappy, splenetic, testy, touchy, waspish
- Security guards were overwhelmed by the fractious crowd at the concert.
restive, uncontrollable, unmanageable, wild
balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, restive, ungovernable, unruly, untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)
hardheaded, headstrong, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pigheaded, resistant, self-opinionated, self-willed, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, uncooperative, unreasonable, unyielding
bad, disorderly, errant, misbehaving, mischievous, monkeying, monkeyish, naughty
acquiescent, agreeable, amiable, cooperative, deferential, obliging
behaved, disciplined, well-bred
courteous, dutiful, polite, respectful
kowtowing, obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient
decorous, mannerly, orderly, proper
controllable, governable, manageable, trainable
amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, obedient, ruly, submissive, tractable
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