260 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ plˈiːdɪŋ], [ plˈiːdɪŋ], [ p_l_ˈiː_d_ɪ_ŋ]

Related words: legal pleading, criminal pleading, civil pleading, persuasive pleading, appellate pleading, legal brief

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Similar words for pleading:

• other relevant words (adjective)
• argument (noun)
• communication (noun)
• importunate (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• persuading (noun)
• plea (noun)
• prayer (noun)
• urging (noun)
• apologizing (verb)
• appealing (verb)
• requesting (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

How to use "pleading" in context?

Paraphrases for pleading

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Synonyms for Pleading:

• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • desirous,
  • Supplicating,
  • beseeching,
  • Begging.

• n.

  •
  • black,
  • brooding,
  • bleak,
  • dark,
  • absent,
  • darkly,
  • bug-eyed,
  • curious,
  • beatific.
  •
  • order,
  • summons,
  • request,
  • application,
  • demand,
  • solicitation,
  • appeal,
  • entreaty.
  •
  • continuance,
  • evidence,
  • deposition,
  • exhibit,
  • appearance,
  • habeas corpus,
  • closing argument,
  • examination,
  • case.
  • argument (noun)
  • ex changes,
  • de-bate,
  • ex-change,
  • de-fenses,
  • de-bates,
  • ex-changes,
  • re monstrance,
  • de bate,
  • ex postulations,
  • de fenses,
  • ex-postulations,
  • line reasoning,
  • re-monstrance,
  • ex postulation,
  • re monstrances,
  • ex change,
  • ex-postulation,
  • re-monstrances,
  • de bates.
  • communication (noun)
  • pleading.
  • importunate (noun)
  • importunate.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • plea,
  • line of reasoning,
  • prayer,
  • orison,
  • Prayers,
  • questioning,
  • statement,
  • request for help,
  • answer adoration,
  • rogation,
  • Pleadings.
  • persuading (noun)
  • urging.
  • plea (noun)
  • OUTS,
  • fish tale,
  • cop-outs,
  • cop-out,
  • copout.
  • prayer (noun)
  • beseechings,
  • in vocations,
  • in vocation,
  • in-vocations,
  • re-quests,
  • answer adorations,
  • implorings,
  • re quests,
  • in-vocation,
  • beggings.
  • urging (noun)
  • co-axing,
  • drivings,
  • co axing,
  • coaxings.

• v.

  • apologizing (verb)
  • defending,
  • Regretting,
  • Repenting,
  • answering,
  • Atoning,
  • Confessing,
  • Apologizing.
  • appealing (verb)
  • appealing,
  • buttonholing,
  • enticing,
  • Addressing,
  • inviting,
  • Applying,
  • approaching,
  • imploring,
  • Accosting,
  • Entreating,
  • Requesting,
  • Soliciting,
  • greeting,
  • Petitioning.
  • requesting (verb)
  • inquiring,
  • bidding,
  • probing,
  • demanding,
  • Desiring,
  • seeking,
  • wanting,
  • requisitioning,
  • Querying,
  • summoning,
  • wishing.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • defense,
  • justice.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • refutation,
  • precative,
  • explain,
  • interpret,
  • pros,
  • apology,
  • considerate,
  • annoying,
  • white lie,
  • advocacy,
  • chicane,
  • affirmative defense,
  • beseech,
  • makeshift,
  • denial,
  • deprecatory,
  • entreat,
  • contention,
  • con,
  • adjuratory,
  • allegation,
  • chicanery,
  • pros and cons,
  • merciful,
  • exigent,
  • likeable,
  • petition,
  • evasion,
  • troublesome,
  • jesuitry,
  • allege,
  • earnest,
  • beseechingly,
  • nonsense,
  • speciousness,
  • defend,
  • sour grapes,
  • argument,
  • legal profession,
  • defective pleading,
  • friendly,
  • rationalize,
  • cover,
  • justification,
  • position,
  • Ignoratio Elenchi,
  • word sense,
  • compete,
  • claim,
  • objection,
  • pro,
  • rebuttal,
  • bothersome,
  • counsel,
  • response,
  • perversion,
  • pretext,
  • soft,
  • decipher,
  • alternative pleading,
  • supplication,
  • likable,
  • quiddity,
  • Obtestation,
  • Paralogy,
  • special pleading,
  • implore,
  • supplicatory,
  • pray,
  • consideration,
  • mystification,
  • pleadingly,
  • argue over,
  • casuistry,
  • plead,
  • moonshine,
  • rejoinder,
  • imploringly,
  • conjuration,
  • contend,
  • surrejoinder,
  • adjuration,
  • wrestle,
  • apologize,
  • persuasive,
  • untruth,
  • answer,
  • blind,
  • affirmative pleading,
  • prayerful,
  • cons,
  • acknowledge,
  • reason,
  • sympathetic,
  • advertise,
  • Obsecration,
  • argue,
  • vindicate,
  • Suppliance,
  • absolve,
  • shift,
  • excuse,
  • Impetration,
  • representation,
  • expound,
  • invoke,
  • suit,
  • Imprecatory,
  • pretense,
  • equivocation,
  • apologise,
  • point,
  • supplicant,
  • complaint,
  • defence,
  • Elenchus,
  • assert,
  • assertion,
  • justify,
  • bar,
  • reply,
  • pleasant,
  • beg,
  • talking point,
  • reasoning,
  • exception,
  • declare,
  • flattery,
  • insistent,
  • agreeable,
  • riposte,
  • Mediating,
  • rationalise,
  • replication,
  • attest,
  • suppliant,
  • counterstatement,
  • argumentum,
  • demurrer,
  • precatory,
  • avow,
  • Imploratory,
  • logic,
  • sophistry.

How to use "Pleading" in context?

Paraphrases for Pleading:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    plea.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    appeals.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    proceeding, writing.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    appealing, arguing, asking, asserting, commemorating, complaining, contending, defending, demanding, insisting, inviting, lapsing, pointing, pressing, proceeding, remembering, seeking, supporting, urging, writing, Advocating, Alleging, Availing, Begging, Citing, Claiming, Declaring, Implying, Invoking, Litigating, Lobbying, Petitioning, Recognizing, Referring, Relying, Requesting, Proclaiming, Soliciting, Stating, Submitting, upholding, requests.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    argument.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    calling, Acknowledging, Admitting.

Hypernym for Pleading:

• n.

  • communication
    charge, defective pleading, alternative pleading, replication, surrejoinder, complaint, rejoinder, rebutter, pleading in the alternative, answer, special pleading, demurrer, surrebutter, rebuttal, surrebuttal, affirmative pleading.

Hyponym for Pleading:

• n.

  • communication
    statement.

Meronym for Pleading:

• n.

  • communication
    bill of particulars.