English > illegal: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules. |
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Example | "an illegal chess move" |
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Attribute of | legality | lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute |
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Narrower | amerciable | Of a crime or misdemeanor |
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banned, prohibited | forbidden by law |
bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled | Distributed or sold illicitly |
criminal, felonious | Involving or being or having the nature of a crime |
dirty, ill-gotten | Obtained illegally or by improper means |
embezzled, misappropriated | Taken for your own use in violation of a trust |
extrajudicial | Beyond the usual course of legal proceedings |
extralegal, nonlegal | not regulated or sanctioned by law |
hot | recently stolen or smuggled |
illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful | contrary to or forbidden by law |
ineligible | prohibited by official rules |
misbranded, mislabeled | Branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements |
penal, punishable | subject to punishment by law |
under-the-counter | Done or sold illicitly and secretly |
unratified | lacking legal authority |
See also | illegitimate | Of marriages and offspring |
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irregular | contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice |
unlawful | contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law |
Opposite | legal | Established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules |
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Spanish | ilegal, ilícito |
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Catalan | il·legal |
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Nouns | illegality | unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute |
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Adverbs | illegally | in an illegal manner |
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