fractious
C2CEFR level
80/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General adjective
Irritable and quarrelsome, or difficult to control.
The alliance was a fractious one, its members forever bickering over strategy.
Medicine adjective
Irritable, difficult to handle or inclined to resist restraint.
The cat became fractious on the table, so I asked the owner to help keep it calm.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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