Factious

Definition: Factious

Factious

Adjective

1. Dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion).

Date "factious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Factious \Fac"tious\ adjective. [Latin expression factiosus: compare to the French expression factieux.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Factious

Synonyms: dissentious (adj), divisive (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discord	Quarrelsome, unpacific; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Factious

English words defined with "factious": Party spirit. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York (reference) A turbulent, seditious, and factious people : John Bunyan and his church, 1628-1688 (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	Here, it is like, the common question will be made, Who shall be judge, whether the prince or legislative act contrary to their trust? This, perhaps, ill-affected and factious men may spread amongst the people, when the prince only makes use of his due prerogative. (Second Treatise of Government)
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Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	Slander those who tell it ye! Admit it for your factious purposes, and make it worse.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Javert called out to the porter in the tone which befits the government, in presence of the porter of a factious man.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Factious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Factious" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	13	97,576

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "factious": Factious-ness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "factious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përçarës (disruptive, divisive, schismatic, schismatical, splitting), i nga përçarja, i fraksionit. (various references)

Arabic		‏مثير للشقاق, ‏حزبي (party). (various references)

Bulgarian		разколнически (schismatic), фракционен (fractional, fractionary), подривен (demolition, disruptive, saping, subversive, undermining), подмолен (secret, seditious, subversive, surreptitious, underground). (various references)

Czech		nepřirozený (contrived, far fetched, farfetched, hollow, unholy, unnatural). (various references)

French		factieux. (various references)

German		künstlich (artifical, artificial, factitious, factitiously, fake, false, imitately, imitation, man-made, simulated, synthetic, synthetical, unnatural), hochgespielt, händelsüchtig (quarrelsome). (various references)

Greek		φιλοκοματισμόσ. (various references)

Hebrew		תככ� י. (various references)

Hungarian		viszálykodó, széthúzó. (various references)

Italian		fazioso (partisan). (various references)

Manx		cologagh. (various references)

Norwegian		fraksjonsdannende. (various references)

Pig Latin		actiousfay.(various references)

Portuguese		facciosismo. (various references)

Romanian		fracţionist, scizionist (splitting), certãreţ (brawler, cantankerous, captious, discordant, eristic, frumpish, peevish, pugnacious, quarrelsome, snappy). (various references)

Russian		фракционный (factional, fractional). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		frakcijaški, stranački (party). (various references)

Spanish		faccioso (factional). (various references)

Swedish		fraktions-, parti- (factional, wholesale), grälsjuk-. (various references)

Turkish		fesatçı (mischief maker), kışkırtıcı (agitator, coat-trailing, demagog, demagogue, factionist, fomenter, incendiary, instigating, instigator, irritant, plotter, provocateur, provocative, rabble-rousing, seditious, setter-on, stumper), hizipçi (cliquish, demagog, demagogue, factionist, fomenter, sectarian, separatist), bölücü (factionist, schismatic, schismatical), ayrımcı (differential, discriminatory, segregationist), ara bozucu. (various references)

Ukranian		розкольницький (nonconforming, nonconformist, schismatic, schismatical), фракційний (factional). (various references)

Vietnamese		gây bè phái; do bè phái gây ra, có tính chất bè phái. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	factiosus. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "factious": factiously, factiousness, factiousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Factious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: faceious, facious, facitious, facitous, Factio, factiosus, factitous, factuous, farctus, fasitious, Fatiou, fatious, fecitous, fictious, foetidus. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "factious" (pronounced 'Fac"tious'): Ablatitious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Addititious, Adjectitious, Adoptious, Adscititious, Adventitious, Ambitious, Arreptitious, Ascititious, Ascriptitious, Bumptious, Captious, Cautious, Cementitious, Cineritious, Collatitious, Combustious, Commentitious, Compunctious, Conceptious, Concupiscentious, Connutritious, Conscientious, Contentious, Deceptious, Defectious, Deglutitious, Deletitious, Detractious, Direptitious, Disputatious, Dissentious, Distractious, Emissitious, Exceptious, Exemptitious, Expeditious, Extortious, Facetious, Factitious, Fictious, flagitious, fractious, Impropitious, incautious, Inimicitious, Innutritious, Inventious, Irreptitious, Lateritious, licentious, Negotious, Novitious, Nutritious, Obreptitious, Ostentatious, Overcautious, Pactitious, Pestilentious, Placentious, Precautious, Precipitious, Pretentious, Profectitious, Propitious, Recrementitious, Reinfectious, Rejectitious, Repertitious, repetitious, robustious, Sapientious, Satellitious, Scribatious, scrumptious, Secretitious, seditious, sententious, Silentious, Stillatitious, Subdititious, Subreptitious, Subventitious, supposititious, surreptitious, Temptatious, Tortious, Tractitious, tralatitious, Translatitious, Tribunitious, Umbratious, Uncautious, Unctious, Unpitious, Vexatious. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-f-i-o-s-t-u"
	-2 letters: coatis, coitus, fiasco, fustic, scotia.
	-3 letters: ascot, autos, coast, coati, coats, coifs, costa, cuifs, cutis, facts, fatso, fiats, ficus, focus, foist, ictus, iotas, ostia, scout, scuta, softa, stoai, stoic, tacos, tofus, tufas.
	-4 letters: acts, aits, asci, auto, cast, cats, ciao, cist, coat, coft, coif, cost, cots, cuif, cuts, fact, fast, fats, fiat, fico, fisc, fist, fits, foci, fuci, iota, oafs, oast, oats, ocas, otic, oust, outs, sati, scat, scot, scut, sift, sofa, soft, stoa, suit, taco, taos, taus, tics, tofu, tufa, tuis, utas.
	-5 letters: act, aft, ais, ait, cat, cis, cos, cot, cut, fas, fat, fit, fou, ifs, its, oaf, oat, oca, oft, out, sac, sat, sau, sic, sit, sot, sou, tao, tas, tau, tic, tis, tui, uta, uts.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-f-i-o-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: facetious, fractious.
	+2 letters: factiously, factitious, furcations.
	+3 letters: cafetoriums, facetiously, fractiously, lactiferous, obfuscating, obfuscation, suffocating, suffocation, suffocative.
	+4 letters: bifurcations, confutations, factiousness, factitiously, fecundations, fluctuations, fucoxanthins, malfunctions, obfuscations, purificators, stupefaction, suffocations, tumefactions, unifications.
	+5 letters: anfractuosity, disfunctional, dysfunctional, effectuations, facetiousness, fasciculation, flocculations, fractiousness, functionalism, functionalist, functionaries, humifications, ichthyofaunas, justification, justificatory, liquefactions, manufactories, purifications, putrefactions, stupefactions, suffocatingly, trifurcations, uglifications.
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