All litigant synonyms

noun litigant

• prisoner — a person who is confined in prison or kept in custody, especially as the result of legal process.
• suspect — to believe to be guilty, false, counterfeit, undesirable, defective, bad, etc., with little or no proof: to suspect a person of murder.
• offender — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
• competitor — A company's competitors are companies who are trying to sell similar goods or services to the same people.
• candidate — A candidate is someone who is being considered for a position, for example someone who is running in an election or applying for a job.
• foe — a person who feels enmity, hatred, or malice toward another; enemy: a bitter foe.
• rival — a person who is competing for the same object or goal as another, or who tries to equal or outdo another; competitor.
• player — Gary, born 1935, South African golfer.
• challenger — A challenger is someone who competes with you for a position or title that you already have, for example being a sports champion or a political leader.
• opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
• aspirant — Someone who is an aspirant to political power or to an important job has a strong desire to achieve it.
• adversary — Your adversary is someone you are competing with, or arguing or fighting against.
• complainant — A complainant is a person who starts a court case in a court of law.
• prosecutor — Law. prosecuting attorney. a person, as a complainant or chief witness, instigating prosecution in a criminal proceeding.
• appellant — An appellant is someone who is appealing against a court's decision after they have been judged guilty of a crime.
• opposer — to act against or provide resistance to; combat.
• assailant — Someone's assailant is a person who has physically attacked them.
• bandit — Robbers are sometimes called bandits, especially if they are found in areas where the law has broken down.
• contestant — A contestant in a competition or quiz is a person who takes part in it.
• match — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
• antagonist — Your antagonist is your opponent or enemy.
• con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
• disputant — a person who disputes; debater.
• anti — You can refer to people who are opposed to a particular activity or idea as antis.
• bidder — A bidder is someone who offers to pay a certain amount of money for something that is being sold. If you sell something to the highest bidder, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it.
• participant — a person or group that participates; partaker.
• plaintiff — a person who brings suit in a court (opposed to defendant).
• actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
• contractor — A contractor is a person or company that does work for other people or organizations.
• agent — A chemical that has a particular effect or is used for a particular purpose can be referred to as a particular kind of agent.
• confederate — Someone's confederates are the people they are working with in a secret activity.
• defendant — A defendant is a person who has been accused of breaking the law and is being tried in court.
• plotter — a person or thing that plots.
• partaker — to take or have a part or share along with others; participate (usually followed by in): He won't partake in the victory celebration.
• sharer — the full or proper portion or part allotted or belonging to or contributed or owed by an individual or group.
• suer — to institute a process in law against; bring a civil action against: to sue someone for damages.
• resister — to withstand, strive against, or oppose: to resist infection; to resist temptation.
• dark horse — If you describe someone as a dark horse, you mean that people know very little about them, although they may have recently had success or may be about to have success.
• counteragent — a person or thing that counteracts
• dissentient — dissenting, especially from the opinion of the majority.
• oppugnant — opposing; antagonistic; contrary.
• compurgator — one who testified in a compurgation
• participator — to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in): to participate in profits; to participate in a play.
• oppositionist — a person who offers opposition; a member of an opposition.
• accused — You can use the accused to refer to a person or a group of people charged with a crime or on trial for it.
• enemy — A person who is actively opposed or hostile to someone or something.
• entrant — A person or group that enters, joins, or takes part in something.
• cojuror — One of a group of people who swear an oath together.
• accuser — An accuser is a person who says that another person has done something wrong, especially that he or she has committed a crime.
• opponent — a person who is on an opposing side in a game, contest, controversy, or the like; adversary.