Litigious

Definition: Litigious

Litigious

Adjective

1. Of or relating to litigation.

2. Inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "litigious" was first used: sometime around 1384. (references)

Etymology: Litigious \Li*ti"gious\, adjective. [Latin expression litigiosus, from litigium dispute, quarrel, from litigare: compare to the French expression litigieux. See Litigation.]. (references)

Synonyms: Litigious

Discord

Quarrelsome, unpacific; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.

Lawsuit

Adjective: litigious; (quarrelsome); qui tam; coram judice, sub judice.

Crosswords: Litigious

Books

• Application of the Makewhole Remedy Under California's Agricultural Labor Relations Act: Litigious Refusals to Bargain (Monograph and Research Serie) (reference)

• It's All Your Fault! A Lay Person's Guide to Personal Liability and Protecting Yourself in a Litigious World (reference)

• Law and markets : is Canada inheriting America's litigious legacy? (reference)

• Protecting Your Assets: Strategies for Successful Business Operation in a Litigious Society (reference)

• The Litigious Athenian (Ancient Society and History) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

If a franchise agreement infringes upon article 85 and 86 of the Treaty of Rome, either the litigious clause is to be voided or the whole contract is to be annulled. (references)

Economic History

Luxembourg

Luxembourg is not a highly litigious country. (references)

Costa Rica

The process has kept the regulatory system relatively transparent and free of abuse, but it has also rendered the system for public sector contract approval exceptionally slow and litigious. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "litigious": argumentative contentious disputatious disputative litigious. Additional references.

Ending with "litigious": non-litigious.

Albanian

i gjyqeve, i gjykueshëm (rational, reasonable), i diskutueshëm (contentious, controversial, debatable, moot, outstanding, problematic, questionable). (various references)

Bulgarian 

спорен (argumentative, attackable, contentious, controversial, debatable, disputable, moot, outstanding, problematic), който обича да се съди. (various references)

Chinese 

好诉讼. (various references)

Czech

sporný (at issue, contentious, controversial, debatable, disputable, disputant, polemic, questionable, vexed). (various references)

Danish

kampberedt paranoiker (litigious paranoic). (various references)

French

litigieux. (various references)

German

streitsüchtig (aggressive, argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, cantankerous, contentious, contentiously, disputatious, pugnacious, pugnaciously, quarrelsome). (various references)

Greek 

φιλόδικοσ, επίδικοσ. (various references)

Hungarian

peres (cause, contentious). (various references)

Italian

litigioso (cantankerous, contentious, fractious, quarrelsome, rowdy), litigigioso (argumentatively, disputatious), contenzioso (contentious). (various references)

Korean 

소송상. (various references)

Manx

streeuagh (contending, quarrelsome, restive, uncomfortable), leighagh (legal), currit da'n leigh, accanagh (complainant, complaining, fretful, grumbler, grumbling, querulous, suitor). (various references)

Pig Latin

itigiouslay.(various references)

Portuguese

litigioso (contentious), controverso (contentious, controversial, polemic), contencioso (contentious). (various references)

Romanian

litigios (contentious, controversial, litigant), pornit pe procese, în discuţie (in debate, in hand, moot, under debate). (various references)

Russian 

сутяжнический, спорный (arguable, argumentative, attackable, contentious, controversial, controvertible, debatable, deniable, disputable, impugnable, moot, open to objection, open to question, vexed point, vexed question). (various references)

Scottish

r� bach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

parnički. (various references)

Spanish

litigioso (disputable), argumentoso (argumentatively, disputatious). (various references)

Turkish

kavgalı (angry with, at loggerheads, at odds), kavgacı (aggressive, bellicose, belligerent, combatant, combative, contentious, disagreeable, disputatious, fighter, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, ruffian, scrappy, spoiling for a fight, turbulent, warlike, wrangler), dava meraklısı, dava konusu olabilir (actionable). (various references)

Ukrainian

сутяжницький (pettifogging), спірний (arguable, argumentative, contentious, controversial, debatable, deniable, disputable, eristic, impugnable, moot, outstanding, vexed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

có thể tranh chấp thích kiện tụng. (various references)

litigiosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "litigious": litigiously, litigiousness, litigiousnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Litigious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lentiginosus, letigious, litgious, litiginous, litigius, litigous, litiguous, Litorius, Lytigius. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: glouts, guilts, sigloi.

-4 letters: gilts, glost, glout, gluts, gouts, guilt, gusto, iglus, lotus, louis, louts, sigil, toils, tolus.

-5 letters: gilt, gist, gits, glut, gout, guls, gust, guts, iglu, list, lits, litu, logs, lost, loti, lots, lout, lugs, lust, oils, oust, outs, silo, silt, slit, slog, slot, slug, soil, soli, soul, suit, tils, togs.

+2 letters: litigiously.

+4 letters: antireligious, isoagglutinin, litigiousness, nonlinguistic, sociolinguist, uglifications.

+5 letters: interreligious, isoagglutinins, liturgiologies, liturgiologist, multireligious, sociolinguists, vulvovaginitis.