lithe, adj. lithesome, pliant, bendable, flexible, flexile; plastic, moldable, adaptable, compliant, tractable, malleable, ductile, fictile; limber, supple, lissome, Archaic. lithy, loose-limbed, loose; nimble, agile, quick, light. lithoid, adj. lithoidal, stonelike, stony, lithic; hard, adamantine, adamant, granite, marble, rock-hard, hard as rock; petrified, ossified, hardened; craggy, harsh, rough, rugged; impervious, impenetrable, unpenetrable. litigant, n. 1. litigator, Law. party, opponent, disputant, contestant, contender; Law. plaintiff, Law. suitor, complainant, suer, petitioner, claimant, Law. appellant, accuser, accusant, Law. prosecutor; Law. defendant, Law. appellee, accused.
-adj. 2. litigating, contesting, disputing, contending; accusing, Law. prosecuting, defending. litigate, v. 1. contest at law, dispute in court; contend; charge, accuse, claim, maintain, hold.
2. carry on a lawsuit, go to court, file or bring suit, institute legal proceedings, bring legal action against, press charges, sue, prosecute. litigation, n. lawsuit, contention, dispute, contest, controversy, legal argument, disputation; suit at law, legal action or proceedings, legal remedy; action, proceedings, case, cause, bringing of charges, laying or filing of charges, bringing to book; prosecution, arraignment, indictment, allegation, accusation, charge, bill of particulars. litigious, adj. 1. litigable, controvertible, contestable, disputable, actionable; controversial, polemic, polemical, eristic.
2. argumentative, argumentatious, disputatious, quarrelsome, contentious, dissentious, dissentient, exceptive; battlesome, combative, pugnacious, bellicose, belligerent, aggressive. litter, n. 1. rubbish, scattered rubbish, refuse, debris, junk, trash, motley collection; tumble, tangle, shreds, odds and ends, hodgepodge, hash, mishmash, muddle, rummage; ollapodrida, Inf. stew, Inf. Duke's mixture, accumulation.
2. disorder, untidiness, clutter, confusion, disarray, chaos; irregularity, lack of system, disorganization; muss, mess, jumble, disarrangement, dishevelment, scramble.
3. issue, offspring, young; multiple birth, brood, hatch, spawn, progeny.
4. stretcher, pallet, swing, hammock, sling; bier, sedan chair, palanquin, portable couch, horse litter, camel litter; (in Ceylon) tonjon, (in India) jampan, (in India) muncheel, (in the East Indies) dooly, (in Japan), norimon.
5. bedding, animal bedding, stable floorcover, straw; mulch, leaf cover, plant protection, winter cover.
-v. 6. strew, mess, mess up, misarrange, displace, put out of place; throw into disorder, disarray, make a shambles of, disarrange, clutter, scatter or strew objects about.
7. cover, cradle, bed down, cover with straw.
8. give birth, produce, bring forth, bring forth young, Inf. come due, Inf. come in, drop, spring, throw, pup, whelp, cub, kitten, foal, calve, lamb, spawn. litterbug, n. strewer, scatterer, broadcaster, litterer; polluter, defiler, desecrator; barbarian, vulgarian, boor, sloven, slattern; Inf. pig, Sl. slob.