Synonyms for legal
ˈli gəl

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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

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

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

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1. legal

   Synonyms:
   legitimate, lawful, allowable, juridical, constitutional

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

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1. legaladjective

   established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

   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

2. legaladjective

   of or relating to jurisprudence

   "legal loophole"

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

   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

3. legal, 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, effectual

   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

4. legaladjective

   relating to or characteristic of the profession of law

   "the legal profession"

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

   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

5. legaladjective

   allowed by official rules

   "a legal pass receiver"

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

   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(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. legaladjective

   Synonyms:
   lawful, legitimate, legalized, authorized or sanctioned (by law), according to law

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1. legaladjective

   Synonyms:
   lawful, legitimate

   Antonyms:
   illegal

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1. 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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How to use legal in a sentence?

1. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich:

   He just wants his immigrants to be legal.

2. Cory Booker:

   We have one remaining path to ensure justice is served, it is our legal and moral obligation to hold those who have committed crimes accountable.

3. Shanghai Husi over the matter:

   ... is totally without factual, scientific or legal foundation.

4. Mark Geragos:

   What you have is this inherent tension of dealing with his legacy versus his realistic jeopardy, the reason you don't have him respond is you don't want to reinvigorate some legal action.

5. Vice President Biden:

   I'm not being a wise guy about the wall and the President, all that, for real, my word, but instead of building more barriers, if it's drugs you're talking about, we can take one tenth of the amount of money we're talking about building the wall and significantly increase the technological capability at legal ports of entry because that's where 95 % of all the stuff is coming through.

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