pleading

1. 1.

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

   Broaderstatement

   Narroweraffirmative pleadingalternative pleadinganswerchargecomplaintdefective pleadingdemurrerrebutterreplicationrejoinder

   Partsbill of Particulars

   law

1. 1.

   begging

   Synonymsbeseechingimploring

   Similaradjuratoryimportunatemendicantpetitionaryprecatorysuppliant

Other forms of pleading

plural

pleadings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pleading

What does pleading mean?

pleading means "(law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pleading?

pleading has 2 syllables: plea-ding. The stress falls on "plea". In IPA it is /ˈplidɪŋ/.

What is another word for pleading?

Close synonyms include beseeching, imploring. 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 pleading a common word?

pleading 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.