- 1好訟的、愛打官司的（多帶貶義）
If you call a person, a company, or a whole culture litigious, you are saying they are very willing to take disagreements to court — and you usually do not mean it kindly. A litigious neighbour might sue over a fence. Newspapers use it when they think court has become a habit, not a last step. It is a formal, slightly sharp adjective; you find it in essays and reports more than in casual speech. Though actually, the line is messy. One person’s ‘litigious’ is another person’s ‘standing up for their rights.’ The word leans toward , but it does not prove that any one case was silly or wrong. It comments on readiness to sue, not on who would win.
組成From Middle English litigious, from Latin litigiosus (‘full of disputes’). Middle French had litigieux in the same family.
同家族的字
- litigiousnessthe noun: this quality of being too ready to sue
- litigatesame Latin lawsuit root
- litigationthe court process a litigious person is quick to start
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
litigiousadj/lɪˈtɪd͡ʒəs/
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lawOf or relating to litigation.
- This vvould of Neceſſity, breed an infinite Number of Brangles and litigious Suits in the Spiritual Courts, and put the vvretched Paſtor at perpetual Variance vvith his vvhole Pariſh.
- 2
lawInclined to engage in lawsuits.
- Tearing a page out of Monsanto's own playbook, the Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), an advocacy group whose mandate is to represent the public's interest in the patent system, filed suit (PDF) on behalf of 60 organic farmers, small farm organizations, and seed businesses this week against the litigious agrichemical and genetically modified (GM) seed giant.
- The United States is a litigious society.
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Argumentative or combative.
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