Thesaurus

Synonyms for Fractious include:

ambitious, arduous, atrabilious, awkward, bad, bad-tempered, baffling, bilious, bristly, cantankerous, catchy, challenging, choleric, churlish, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, crusty, curmudgeonly, currish, dark, defiant, delicate, demanding, difficult, disagreeable, disobedient, dour, dyspeptic, effortful, embarrassing, fractious, froward, fussy, glowering, glum, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, hard, hard-fought, headstrong, herculean, hot-tempered, hotheaded, huffish, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-natured, ill-tempered, incorrigible, intractable, irascible, irritable, knotty, liverish, misanthropic, misanthropical, misogynous, moody, morose, nagging, nasty, nettlesome, noncompliant, obstinate, ornery, peckish, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, problematic, problematical, quick-tempered, recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, rocky, rough, rugged, saturnine, scratchy, self-willed, serious, shirty, short-tempered, shrewish, snappish, snappy, snorty, sour, splenetic, spoiled, spoilt, sticky, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, tall, techy, testy, tetchy, thorny, ticklish, tight, touchy, tough, tricky, troublesome, trying, ugly, unenviable, unmanageable, unpleasant, unregenerate, vexed, vinegarish, vinegary, waspish, wayward, wilful, willful

fractious is a ADJ.