legalese
English
noun
Definitions
- (informal) Technical jargon common in the legal profession, the argot of lawyers.
- (informal) Wordy, ostentatious talk or writing that resembles legal writing, especially when confusing to laypeople; bureaucratese; officialese.
Etymology
Suffix from English legal.
Origin
English
legal
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- alegal English
- antilegal English
- counterlegal English
- cyberlegal English
- dentolegal English
- extralegal English
- intralegal English
- juridico-legal English
- legal English
- legalise English
- legalism English
- legalist English
- legalistic English
- legality English
- legalize English
- legally English
- legalness English
- medicolegal English
- metalegal English
- nonlegal English
- paralegal English
- politicolegal English
- postlegal English
- prelegal English
- preterlegal English
- pseudolegal English
- psycholegal English
- quasilegal English
- semilegal English
- sociolegal English
- sublegal English
- lēgālis Latin
- Legalism Chinese
- legal
- alegal
- legally
- legality
- legalise
- legalist
- legalism
- legalize
- prelegal
- sublegal
- nonlegal
- postlegal
- legalness
- paralegal
- metalegal
- semilegal
- antilegal
- cyberlegal
- legalistic
- sociolegal
- extralegal
- intralegal
- quasilegal
- dentolegal
- pseudolegal
- psycholegal
- medicolegal
- preterlegal
- counterlegal
- politicolegal
- juridico-legal