appellate

1. 1.

   of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals)

   “appellate court”

   Synonymsappellant

   law

Questions about appellate

What does appellate mean?

appellate means "of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals)".

How many syllables are in appellate?

appellate has 3 syllables: ap-pel-late. The stress falls on "pel". In IPA it is /əˈpɛlɪt/.

What is another word for appellate?

Close synonyms include appellant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is appellate a common word?

appellate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.