What Does Fractiousness Mean?

See synonyms for: fractious / fractiousness on Thesaurus.com. adjective. refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness. readily angered; peevish; irritable; quarrelsome: an incorrigibly fractious young man.

Is Fractiousness a word?

The quality or condition of being unruly: disorderliness, indocility, intractability, intractableness, obstinacy, obstinateness, obstreperousness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, uncontrollability, uncontrollableness, ungovernableness, unmanageability, unruliness, untowardness, wildness.

What does fractious mean in math?

Fractious is defined as "tending to be troublesome" or "quarrelsome, irritable". ... The modern definition of fraction is more commonly used in mathematics or to describe fragmentation.