English > illegal: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | 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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