judicial

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuˈdɪʃəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɪʃəl
• Hyphenation: ju‧di‧cial

judicial (comparative more judicial, superlative most judicial)

1. Of or relating to the administration of justice.

   Synonyms: justiciary; see also Thesaurus:judicial

2. Of or relating to the court system or the judicial branch of government.
   • 2013 August 10, “Can China clean up fast enough?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8848:

     It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

3. (Ireland, historical) specified by a civil bill court under the terms of the Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881

   judicial rent, judicial lease

4. Of or relating to judgeship or the judiciary, the collective body of judges.
5. Of or relating to sound judgment; judicious (but see Usage notes).

Many editors maintain a differentiation between judicial and judicious and believe that writers should not confuse judicial (having to do with justice and judiciary systems) with judicious (showing good judgment), so for example judicious use of X (i.e. wisely chosen) is not interchangeable with judicial use of X (i.e. by the courts). Meanwhile, the word juridical is not well differentiated in meaning from judicial, the two having substantial semantic overlap.

judicial (uncountable)

1. That branch of government which is responsible for maintaining the courts of law and for the administration of justice.

   Synonyms: judiciary; see also Thesaurus:judicature

• juridicial

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ʒu.ði.siˈal]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [d͡ʒu.ði.siˈal]

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judicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural judicials)

1. judicial

• extrajudicial
• judicialment

• judici
• jutge
• jutjar

• “judicial”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “judicial”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “judicial” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “judicial”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

judicial m or f (plural judiciais, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of xudicial

• “judicial”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

judicial m or f (plural judiciais)

1. judicial
   • 2007, Leonardo Barreto Moreira Neves, O fim da culpa na separação judicial, Editora del Rey, →ISBN, page 148:

     A questão jurídica em debate foi com precisão resumida pelo Ministro Castro Filho: "É possível o juiz decretar a separação judicial do casal por culpa recíproca ou insuportabilidade da vida em comum, quando o pedido de separação é fundado na culpa exclusiva de um dos cônjuges, ausente a reconvenção".

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• “judicial”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “judicial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from Latin iūdiciālis.

• IPA^(key): /xudiˈθjal/ [xu.ð̞iˈθjal] (Equatorial Guinea, Spain)
• IPA^(key): /xudiˈsjal/ [xu.ð̞iˈsjal] (Latin America, Philippines)

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• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: ju‧di‧cial

judicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural judiciales)

1. judicial
   • 2025 November 26, “Juez federal dice que los oficiales de inmigración en Colorado solo pueden arrestar a quienes corren el riesgo de huir”, in CNN en Español‎^[1], sourced from Associated Press:

     Un juez federal dictaminó el martes que los oficiales de inmigración en Colorado solo pueden arrestar a personas sin una orden judicial si creen que es probable que esas personas huyan.

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• “judicial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025