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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, legal, 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?
It's legal to obtain fetal tissue. You are not supposed to sell it. You can certainly make it available.
I used the DOJ-OLP manual to run searches for all media but did not locate this interview and did not recall this event, which involved a call-in to a local radio show, after listening to the audio file supplied by CNN, I agree that the content is equivalent to the legal analysis appearing throughout my SJQ and discussed extensively during my Senate confirmation hearing. Additionally, the transcript supplied by CNN appears to track with the audio and accurately recounts my responses during the phone call—when quoted in full.
This has to do with ... moral, legal, ethical concepts that are out there about lives that we've already created, lives have already been created ... I wouldn't just toss them aside, no different than a child that had been born.
Shanghai Husi over the matter:
... is totally without factual, scientific or legal foundation.
Laser pointers are legal and certainly have legitimate uses, used in the wrong environment, however, they can be very dangerous.
Translations for Legal
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- 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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