res judicata

1. 1.

   a matter already settled in court; cannot be raised again

   Synonymsres adjudicata

   Broadertopic

Questions about res judicata

What does res judicata mean?

res judicata means "a matter already settled in court; cannot be raised again".

What is another word for res judicata?

Close synonyms include res adjudicata. 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 res judicata a common word?

res judicata is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.