different between misbehaving vs fractious
misbehaving
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English misbehaving, equivalent to misbehave +? -ing.
Noun
misbehaving (countable and uncountable, plural misbehavings)
- bad conduct or actions
Etymology 2
From misbehave +? -ing.
Verb
misbehaving
- present participle of misbehave
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fractious
English
Etymology
fraction (“discord, (now obsolete)”) +? -ous
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?f?æk.??s/
Adjective
fractious (comparative more fractious, superlative most fractious)
- Given to troublemaking.
- Irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Smith, Elder & Company, London, page 228,
- …in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Smith, Elder & Company, London, page 228,
Derived terms
- fractiously
- fractiousness
Translations
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