pleading :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

Nouns (1)

n. (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding

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Adjectives (3)

adj. expressing earnest entreaty; "the appealing and frightened look worn by an injured dog"; "she holds out her hand for money, importunate, insistent"; "a pleading note in her voice"

Fuzzynyms (2)

insistent, repetitive

adj. persistently continual; "the bluejay's insistent cry"

Synonyms (8)

adjuratory

adj. earnestly or solemnly entreating; "in adjuratory terms"

mendicant

adj. practicing beggary; "mendicant friars"

petitionary

adj. of the nature of or expressing a petition; "the petitionary procedure had a quality of indecisiveness"

precatory, precative

adj. expressing entreaty or supplication; "precatory overtures"

suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory

adj. humbly entreating; "a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness"

Antonyms (0)

pleading

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