Litigious 601 Words You Need to Know to Pass Your Exam as a legal term in English with synonyms, antonyms, illustrations and parts of speech for GRE candidates and advanced learners of English in real context
/lɪˈtɪdʒ.əs/ (adj)
Definition
so quarrelsome and argumentative that it tends to take a case to a court of law for litigation, inclined to take a legal action or prosecution, contentious, disputatious, polemical, controversial
Example
The United States is already the most litigious society in the world. We spend about 2.2 percent of gross domestic product, roughly $310 billion a year, or about $1,000 for each person in the country on tort litigation, much higher than any other country. This includes the costs of tort litigation and damages paid to victims. About half of this total is for transactions costs — mostly legal fees.
Several factors help explain the amount of litigation in the U.S. Most countries do not allow contingent fees (where lawyers are paid only if they win from the proceeds of the lawsuit). Allowing contingent fees increases the number of suits. In most of the world a losing party is sometimes responsible for the legal costs of the winning party; this is not true in the U.S., so lawyers here are willing to bring more risky cases. The American system is also much friendlier to group litigation (such as class actions) than is the rest of the world.
Source of example: https://www.nytimes.com.
Parts of speech
Noun: litigiousness
Adverb: litigiously
