What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Fractional vs Fractious - What's the difference?

fractional | fractious |

As adjectives the difference between fractional and fractious

is that fractional is pertaining to a fraction while fractious is given to troublemaking.

As a noun fractional

is an expression of a fractional number.

fractional

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a fraction.
  • Divided; fragmentary; incomplete.
  • Very small; minute.
  • (chemistry) Relating to a process or product of fractional distillation.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) An expression of a fractional number.
    • In English, most ordinals double as fractionals''' — "third", "fourth", and so on — with the exception of "second", whose corresponding '''fractional is "half".
  • Partial ownership of a property, such as real estate or a chartered airplane, such that each partial owner has use of the property for only a portion of the time.
    • A fractional is much more expensive than a traditional timeshare, but to many people, it's worth it.
  • (chemistry) Relating to a fraction in a material distillation or separation process.

    • fractious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • given to troublemaking
  • irritable; argumentative; quarrelsome
  • * {{quote-news, year=2014
    • , date=November 14 , author=Stephen Halliday , title=Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero , work=The Scotsman citation , page= , passage=Flair and invention were very much at a premium, suffocated by the relentless pace and often fractious nature of proceedings. The absence of James Morrison from the centre of Scotland’s midfield, the West Brom man ruled out on the morning of the game by illness, had already diminished the creative capacity of the home side in that department.}}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=November 7, author=Matt Bai, title=Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=That brief moment after the election four years ago, when many Americans thought Mr. Obama’s election would presage a new, less fractious political era, now seems very much a thing of the past. }}
  • * 1847 , ,
    • …in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.

    Derived terms

    * fractiously * fractiousness