fractious
irritable, quarrelsome, or hard to control
Roots
- -ous / -ious: full of or marked by a quality
- fract / frag: break, break back, shatter, or become breakable
Other words with the fract / frag root
Fractious behavior keeps breaking cooperation into quarrels.
The fractious committee turned one simple vote into three arguments.
Fractious is not just annoyed. A fractious group will not hold together smoothly; disagreement keeps cracking through the room.