petulant vs fractious

petulant and fractious both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
petulant	No	Yes	No	No
fractious	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, petulant and fractious are synonyms defined as:

Other synonyms of petulant include cranky, irritable, nettlesome, peckish, peevish, pettish, scratchy, techy, testy, tetchy.

petulant (adjective)	fractious (adjective)
easily irritated or annoyed	unpredictably difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome
	stubbornly resistant to authority or control
	easily irritated or annoyed