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Synonyms for lawless

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  1. Without law

    wild, untamed, uncivilized, savage, native, uncultivated, barbarous, fierce, violent, turbulent, unpeaceful, tempestuous, disordered, agitated, disturbed, warlike; see also uncontrolled.

    Antonyms cultured*, cultivated, controlled.

  2. Not restrained by law

    insurgent, mutinous, riotous, ungovernable, nihilistic, nonconformist, unorthodox, seditious, in defiance of the law, traitorous, recusant, contumacious, seditious, revolutionary, insubordinate, disobedient, piratical, terrorizing, tyrannous, anarchic, anarchistic, anarchical, heterodox, despotic, bad, criminal, evil, infringing, noncompliant, defiant, rude, recalcitrant, refractory, transgressive; see also mobbish, rebellious 2, unruly.

See lawless in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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