litigious

Speech parts

1. litigious - Adjective

2. litigious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.

Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious.

Of or pertaining to legal disputes.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

contentious combative disputatious disputative warlike controversial contrary hostile aggressive proceeding debatable antagonistic belligerent polemic irritable
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Antonyms

indubitable unanimous cowardly joyful indisputable undeniable
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Examples

What is the flesh and blood compounded ofBut a few moments in the life of time?This prowling of the cells, litigious love,Wears the long claw of flesh-arguing crime. Allen Tate

Litigious terms, fat contentions, and flowing fees. John Milton

In these litigious times, if you're a beginner, it's becoming harder and harder to get your work to the people who might actually be able to hire you. Len Wein

Our wrangling lawyers... are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter,-some of them in hell. Robert Burton

(the effort to abolish affirmative action) is led mostly by conscienceless politicians, publicity-seeking bigots, whites with individual gripes who find it easy to make trouble in a litigious society, and a handful of blacks who harbor doubts about their own intellectual merits. Carl Rowan

A litigious man, a liar. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

litigatory litiginous litigiosity litigiously litigiousness litigon