plaintiff

Questions about plaintiff

What does plaintiff mean?

plaintiff means "a person who brings an action in a court of law".

How many syllables are in plaintiff?

plaintiff has 2 syllables: plain-tiff. The stress falls on "plain". In IPA it is /ˈpleɪntəf/.

What is another word for plaintiff?

Close synonyms include complainant. 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.

What is the opposite of plaintiff?

The recorded antonyms are defendant.

Is plaintiff a common word?

plaintiff is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.