Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or characterized by litigation.
- adjective Tending to engage in lawsuits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclined to litigate or go to law; given to the practice of bringing lawsuits; fond of litigation; contentious.
- Subject to or dependent upon legal contest; hence, disputable; controvertible; subject to contention: as, litigious right.
- Of or pertaining to litigation; relating to or connected with legal contention.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined to initiate lawsuits; given to the practice of contending in law; fond of litigation.
- adjective Quarrelsome; contentious; argumentative.
- adjective Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.
- adjective Of or pertaining to legal disputes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
litigation . - adjective Inclined to engage in
lawsuits . - adjective
Argumentative orcombative .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to litigation
- adjective inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But the management saw it as potentially a health and safety issue in litigious Britain.
May 16, 2004 Laban 2004
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Can I call the litigious one a self-obsessed arse without being sued?
Archive 2006-01-01 Garry 2006
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But the management saw it as potentially a health and safety issue in litigious Britain.
Archive 2004-05-16 Laban 2004
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Can I call the litigious one a self-obsessed arse without being sued?
Another Celebrity Special Garry 2006
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"Clearly the patent system in the U.S. has become one that is litigious, that is complicated," she said at the permanent representation of the German state of Bavaria to the EU.
Official: U.S. Needs Europe's Help on Patent Protection Frances Robinson 2011
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Im quite happy with the 9 mil Para and brisk handloaded Hornady XTP 124 grain hollowpoints, but I understand that in the US handloaded carry ammo can call litigious problems.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Women’s (or Men’s) Concealed Carry Handgun Recommendations: 2009
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Amazingly, after five and a half years, not one single victim's case from 9/11 has even been heard in a court of law -- in spite of the fact that the US is known as a litigious society with an abundance of aggressive lawyers.
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TOOBIN: Non-litigious, which is the key word there, what that means is working out a settlement outside the courtroom, not having litigation.
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The tenants were not going to be frustrated by that -- being Irishmen and litigious, which is one and the same thing.
The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent S.M. Hussey
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Whatever the laws may be, they seem to give perfect satisfaction to the inhabitants, who cannot be called a litigious race.
A Journey to Katmandu (the Capital of Napaul), with The Camp of Jung Bahadoor; including A Sketch of the Nepaulese Ambassador at Home Laurence Oliphant 1858
plethora commented on the word litigious
I like the mouthfeel of this word.
April 19, 2008