Antonyms for legal
ˈli gəlle·gal

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1. legaladjective

   Being allowed or prescribed by law, such as a legal motion.

   Antonyms:
   contraband, disallowed, illegal, forbidden, banned, outlawed

2. legaladjective

   Antonyms:
   back-alley, black-market

3. legaladjective

   Antonyms:
   underage

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1. legal

   Antonyms:
   abominable, criminal, culpable, felonious, flagitious, guilty, illegal, immoral, iniquitous, nefarious, sinful, unlawful, vicious, vile, wicked, wrong

   Synonyms:
   innocent, just, lawful, meritorious, moral, right, virtuous

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 1 vote

1. legal

   Antonyms:
   illegal, illegitimate, unlawful, unallowable, lay, unconstitutional

   Synonyms:
   legitimate, lawful, allowable, juridical, constitutional

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. 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, misappropriated

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

2. legaladjective

   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, hot

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

3. legal, sound, effectualadjective

   having legal efficacy or force

   "a sound title to the property"

   Antonyms:
   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, contraband

   Synonyms:
   sound, heavy, effective, wakeless, efficacious, profound, good, healthy, reasoned, intelligent, level-headed, well-grounded, levelheaded, effectual

4. legaladjective

   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, extralegal

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

5. legaladjective

   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

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

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1. legaladjective

   Antonyms:
   illegal

   Synonyms:
   lawful, legitimate

How to use legal in a sentence?

1. Kenneth Gross:

   I don't see any benefit from it from a legal standpoint, they might as well be one committee.

2. Justin Trudeau:

   The news coming out of the United States is horrific, my heart goes out to the millions of American women who are now set to lose their legal right to an abortion. I can't imagine the fear and anger you are feeling right now.

3. Marie Stopes:

   This issue( of pro-life activists) has stigmatized safe and legal abortion in the communities. The stigmatization of abortion has created discrimination among women seeking abortion and service providers providing safe and legal abortion services.

4. George Atallah:

   Our medical and legal team have been in touch with Tyrod and Tyrod Taylor agent since Sunday collecting facts. An investigation has been initiated.

5. California Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff:

   I think that Bob Mueller will prevail in the sense of being able to go forward with this litigation, i don't think there's really any legal question about that. But yes, it is concerning that the judge would express this opinion.

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