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Synonyms for legal
ˈli gəlle·gal
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Wiktionary
legaladjective
Being allowed or prescribed by law, such as a legal motion.
Antonyms:
contraband, disallowed, illegal, forbidden, banned, outlawedlegaladjective
Antonyms:
back-alley, black-marketlegaladjective
Antonyms:
underage
English Synonyms and Antonyms
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
legal
Synonyms:
legitimate, lawful, allowable, juridical, constitutionalAntonyms:
illegal, illegitimate, unlawful, unallowable, lay, unconstitutional
Princeton's WordNet
legaladjective
established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
Antonyms:
ineligible, amerciable, embezzled, penal, bootleg, unratified, misbranded, ill-gotten, smuggled, illegal, extrajudicial, banned, felonious, hot, black, criminal, punishable, contraband, extralegal, dirty, outlawed, under-the-counter, outlaw(a), unlawful, invalid, illicit, black-market, mislabeled, illegitimate, nonlegal, prohibited, misappropriatedlegaladjective
of or relating to jurisprudence
"legal loophole"
Antonyms:
black-market, ineligible, extrajudicial, mislabeled, ill-gotten, illegal, embezzled, outlawed, unratified, contraband, bootleg, extralegal, misappropriated, unlawful, punishable, dirty, illegitimate, under-the-counter, outlaw(a), amerciable, smuggled, felonious, criminal, prohibited, nonlegal, banned, misbranded, penal, illicit, black, invalid, hotlegal, sound, effectualadjective
having legal efficacy or force
"a sound title to the property"
Synonyms:
sound, heavy, effective, wakeless, efficacious, profound, good, healthy, reasoned, intelligent, level-headed, well-grounded, levelheaded, effectualAntonyms:
dirty, ineligible, unratified, illicit, extrajudicial, embezzled, outlaw(a), black-market, under-the-counter, bootleg, smuggled, hot, outlawed, penal, criminal, misappropriated, felonious, ill-gotten, black, unlawful, invalid, illegitimate, banned, punishable, prohibited, illegal, nonlegal, extralegal, amerciable, misbranded, mislabeled, contrabandlegaladjective
relating to or characteristic of the profession of law
"the legal profession"
Antonyms:
black-market, banned, illegitimate, punishable, unratified, misappropriated, dirty, amerciable, extrajudicial, ineligible, hot, black, misbranded, mislabeled, outlawed, outlaw(a), illegal, prohibited, bootleg, penal, contraband, ill-gotten, illicit, unlawful, under-the-counter, invalid, felonious, criminal, embezzled, smuggled, nonlegal, extralegallegaladjective
allowed by official rules
"a legal pass receiver"
Antonyms:
illicit, misappropriated, outlawed, felonious, penal, banned, unratified, amerciable, outlaw(a), ill-gotten, criminal, unlawful, illegitimate, invalid, bootleg, embezzled, dirty, smuggled, black, misbranded, hot, ineligible, nonlegal, under-the-counter, contraband, extralegal, punishable, mislabeled, black-market, extrajudicial, prohibited, illegal
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
legaladjective
Synonyms:
lawful, legitimate, legalized, authorized or sanctioned (by law), according to law
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
legaladjective
Synonyms:
lawful, legitimateAntonyms:
illegal
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "legal":
judicial, juridical, lawful, law, statutory, legislative, juridique, laws, legitimate, juridiques, legally, moral, morales, jurídica, jurídico, justice, qanooni, juristische, jurídicas, legale, licit, qanouni, forensic, legislation, qanoni, jurisdictional, judiciary, right, oikeudellinen, kanoni, regulatory, jurists, pravni, court, lawyers
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#109 | just | |
#155 | good | |
#234 | right | |
#332 | law | |
#546 | legal | |
#608 | court | |
#803 | sound | |
#1068 | effective | |
#1801 | laws | |
#1818 | justice | |
#2145 | heavy | |
#2615 | healthy | |
#2649 | legislation | |
#2987 | lawyers | |
#3436 | regulatory | |
#3900 | legislative | |
#4767 | intelligent | |
#4904 | moral | |
#5290 | judicial | |
#5770 | statutory | |
#5870 | constitutional | |
#7271 | innocent | |
#8066 | legitimate | |
#8183 | legally | |
#10014 | judiciary | |
#11282 | forensic | |
#11321 | profound | |
#14616 | allowable | |
#15598 | lawful | |
#19279 | morales | |
#23590 | reasoned | |
#23634 | jurisdictional | |
#31891 | virtuous | |
#41126 | meritorious | |
#54598 | efficacious | |
#55753 | juridical | |
#58070 | jurists | |
#70091 | effectual | |
#80575 | juridique | |
#93392 | legale | |
#129433 | licit | |
#160757 | juridiques | |
#194605 | levelheaded | |
#196148 | juridica |
How to use legal in a sentence?
Even if what he's accused of were true, I think he was doing it for the sake of democracy in a country denied all legal venues to change their government.
It appears that they are making technical legal arguments in order to avoid a review on the merits in court.
The enforcement arms of government should not be used in order to shake down the productive sector just because we can, especially when the legal case is shaky at best.
We certainly expect people of any income to be able to stand on their own two feet, so if people are not able to be self-sufficient, than this negative factor is going to bear very heavily against them in a decision about whether they'll be able to become a legal permanent resident.
This week will mark one year from the riots at Our Capitol. As we have said from the start, the actions of that day were lawless and as wrong as wrong can be, our Capitol should never be compromised and those who broke the law deserve to face legal repercussions and full accountability. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. ( AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)( AP Photo/Andrew Harnik).
Translations for legal
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- قانونيArabic
- legalCatalan, Valencian
- legální, zákonný, právníCzech
- lovligDanish
- juristisch, legal, rechtlichGerman
- νόμιμος, νομικόςGreek
- legalSpanish
- seaduslikEstonian
- حقوقیPersian
- laki-, lainopillinen, laillinen, juridinen, oikeudellinen, lakisääteinen, lakimies-, lainmukainenFinnish
- légal, juridiqueFrench
- legal, lícitoGalician
- משפטי, חוקיHebrew
- कानूनीHindi
- törvényes, jogiHungarian
- իրավական, օրինականArmenian
- legalIndonesian
- giuridico, legaleItalian
- משפטיHebrew
- 法律の, 合法, 法的な, 法に則ったJapanese
- 적법한, 합법적인Korean
- legalis, legitimus, legalLatin
- likumīgsLatvian
- правен, законскиMacedonian
- juridiskNorwegian
- juridisch, recht, wettig, wettelijk, legaal, legitiemDutch
- juridiskNorwegian Nynorsk
- lovligNorwegian
- [[zgodny]] [[z]] [[prawo, legalny, prawniczy, prawnyPolish
- legalPortuguese
- juridic, legalRomanian
- лега́льный, зако́нный, юриди́ческий, правово́й, правоме́рный, юридическоеRussian
- legali, ligali, legaleSardinian
- pravniški, praven, zakonitSlovene
- rättsligt, lagligSwedish
- చట్టపరమైనTelugu
- ถูกกฎหมายThai
- kanuni, tüzel, adli, meşru, yasal, hukuki, hukuksalTurkish
- לעגאַלYiddish
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