Meaning of ILLEGAL
| Pronunciation: | | i'leegul
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| | Definition: | | [adj] prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move" |
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| | Synonyms: | | amerciable, banned, black, black-market, bootleg, contraband, criminal, dirty, embezzled, extrajudicial, extralegal, felonious, hot, illegitimate, ill-gotten, illicit, ineligible, misappropriated, misbranded, mislabeled, nonlegal, outlaw(a), outlawed, penal, prohibited, punishable, smuggled, under-the-counter, unlawful, unratified |
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| | Antonyms: | | legal | | |
| | See Also: | | irregular | |
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| | Definition: | | \Il*le"gal\, a. [Pref. il- not + legal: cf. F.
ill['e]gal.]
Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary
to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence,
immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love.
--Bp. Burnet.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, atrocious, banned, barred, black-market, bootleg, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, evil, felonious, flawed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, hardly the thing, hot, ignominious, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inequitable, infamous, iniquitous, interdicted, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonpermissible, not done, not permitted, not the thing, off limits, off-base, off-color, out of bounds, outlaw, outlawed, out-of-line, prohibited, proscribed, punishable, ruled out, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, taboo, tabooed, terrible, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unbalanced, unconstitutional, under the ban, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undeserved, undue, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unlawful, unlicensed, unmeet, unmerited, unofficial, unpermissible, unrighteous, unrightful, unsanctioned, unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, untouchable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wicked, wrong, wrongful |
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