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litigatory

litigatory adjective: relating to, or inclined towards litigation.

Adjective

litigatory (comparative more litigatory, superlative most litigatory)

  1. Relating to, or inclined towards litigation
    • Glazer echoes the lament of his friend and collaborator, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, for the Westway project, supposedly a victim of New York’s “regulatory and litigatory maze.”2007 June 3, Kevin Baker, “Modernist Times”, in New York Times

Forms of litigatory

comparativemore litigatory
superlativemost litigatory

Origin of litigatory

From litigate + -ory.

Questions about litigatory

What does litigatory mean?
Litigatory means relating to, or inclined towards litigation.
What part of speech is litigatory?
Litigatory is an adjective.

Words near litigatory in the dictionary

  1. litigations
  2. litigatious
  3. litigative
  4. litigator
  5. litigators
  6. litigatory
  7. litiginous
  8. litigiosity
  9. litigious
  10. litigiously
  11. litigiousness

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