Word Meanings - LITIGIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging attorney or a litigious client." Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men,

Additional info about word: LITIGIOUS

1. Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging attorney or a litigious client." Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men, who guarrels move. Donne. 2. Subject to contention; disputable; controvertible; debatable; doubtful; precarious. Shak. No fences, parted fields, nor marks, nor bounds, Distinguished acres of litigious grounds. Dryden. 3. Of or pertaining to legal disputes. Nor brothers cite to the litigious bar. Young.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LITIGIOUS)

• Disputatious
• Litigious
• argumentative
• cantankerous
• quarrelsome
• querulous
• Factious
• Oppositions
• exceptions
• litigious
• crusty
• malcontent
• adversative
• Quarrelsome
• Choleric
• irascible
• petulant
• pugnacious
• brawling
• fiery
• hot-tempered
• contentious
• irritable
• Querlmonlous
• Malcontent
• dissatisfied
• opposititious

Related words: (words related to LITIGIOUS)

• FACTIOUS
  1. Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons. Factious for the house of Lancaster.
• IRRITABLE
  Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. (more info) 1. Capable of being irriated. 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as,
• CANTANKEROUS
  Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n. The cantankerous old maiden aunt. Theckeray.
• CONTENTIOUS
  Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
• BRAWLING
  1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. 2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp.
• DISPUTATIOUS
  Inclined to dispute; apt to civil or controvert; characterized by dispute; as, a disputatious person or temper. The Christian doctrine of a future life was no recommendation of the new religion to the wits and philosophers of that disputations
• LITIGIOUSLY
  In a litigious manner.
• ADVERSATIVE
  Expressing contrariety, opposition, or antithesis; as, an adversative conjunction ; an adversative force. -- Ad*ver"sa*tive*ly, adv.
• MALCONTENTED
  Malcontent. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
• ARGUMENTATIVE
  1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
• CRUSTY
  Having a hard exterior, or a short, rough manner, though kind at heart; snappish; peevish; surly. Thou crusty batch of nature, what's the news Shak. (more info) 1. Having the nature of crust; pertaining to a hard covering; as, a crusty coat; a
• FIERY
  1. Consisting of, containing, or resembling, fire; as, the fiery gulf of Etna; a fiery appearance. And fiery billows roll below. I. Watts. 2. Vehement; ardent; very active; impetuous. Hath thy fiery heart so parched thine entrails Shak. The fiery
• MALCONTENT
  discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government. The famous malcontent earl of Leicester. Milner.
• PETULANT
  attacks upon, from a lost dim. of petere to fall upon, to attack: cf. 1. Forward; pert; insolent; wanton. Burton. 2. Capriciously fretful; characterized by ill-natured freakishness; irritable. "Petulant moods." Macaulay. Syn. -- Irritable;
• BRAWLER
  One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler , one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.
• QUARRELSOME
  Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric. Syn. -- Pugnacious; irritable; irascible; brawling; choleric; fiery; petulant. -- Quar"rel*some*ly, adv. -- Quar"rel*some*ness,
• LITIGIOUS
  1. Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation. " A pettifogging attorney or a litigious client." Macaulay. Soldiers find wars, and lawyers find out still Litigious men,
• QUERULOUS
  1. Given to quarreling; quarrelsome. land. 2. Apt to find fault; habitually complaining; disposed to murmur; as, a querulous man or people. Enmity can hardly be more annoying that querulous, jealous, exacting fondness. Macaulay. 3. Expressing
• PETULANTLY
  In a petulant manner.
• PUGNACIOUS
  Disposed to fight; inclined to fighting; quarrelsome; fighting. --Pug*na"cious*ly, adv. -- Pug*na"cious*ness, n.
• INIRRITABLE
  Not irritable; esp. , incapable of being stimulated to action, as a muscle. -- In*ir`ri*ta*bil"i*ty, n.