fractious, refractory, recalcitrant(adj)

stubbornly resistant to authority or control

"a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child"

cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy(adj)

easily irritated or annoyed

"an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen"

fractious(adj)

unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome

"rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas"; "fractious components of a communication system"

fractious(Adjective)

given to troublemaking

fractious(Adjective)

irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome

Fractious(adj)

apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse