What is the meaning of fractious?

Stubbornly resistant to authority or control.
- usage: "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"
- synonyms: refractory, recalcitrant
Easily irritated or annoyed.
- usage: "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"
- synonyms: cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy
Unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome.
- usage: "rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"

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