tort-feasor

1. 1.

   a party who has committed a tort

   Synonymstortfeasor

   Broaderparty

Questions about tort-feasor

What does tort-feasor mean?

tort-feasor means "a party who has committed a tort".

How many syllables are in tort-feasor?

tort-feasor has 4 syllables: tort--fe-a-sor. The stress falls on "fe".

What is another word for tort-feasor?

Close synonyms include tortfeasor. 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 tort-feasor a common word?

tort-feasor 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.