Legal Definition and Related Resources of Frivolous

As used with reference to pleadings, means pleading that is either legally or factually’deficient.

adjective

• childish
• flighty
• flimsy
• flippant
• giddy
• immaterial
• inanis
• insignificant
• levis
• light
• lightminded
• meaningless
• minor
• nugax
• of little weight
• of no account
• paltry
• petty
• senseless
• shallow
• silly
• slight
• superficial
• trifling
• trivial
• unimportant
• unserious
• unworthy of serious notice
• worthless
• Associated Concepts: frivolous answer
• frivolous appeal
• frivolous cause of action
• frivolous claims
• frivolous pleading

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Frivolous in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims

Is applied to an answer, plea, or objection which upon its face is clearly insufficient in law, and apparently made for purposes of delay or to embarrass an advesary.

Note: This legal definition of Frivolous in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.

Grammar

This term is an adjetive.

Etimology of Frivolous

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mid-15c., from Latin frivolus “silly, empty, trifling, worthless,” diminutive of *frivos “broken, crumbled,” from friare “break, rub away, crumble” (see friable). In law (by 1736), “so clearly insufficient as to need no argument to show its weakness.” Related: Frivolously; frivolousness.