Contraband Synonyms and Antonyms

kŏntrə-bănd
Black-market; unlawful
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. black market
  2. forbidden
  3. unauthorized
  4. black
  5. prohibited from import or export
  6. bootleg
  7. smuggled
Antonyms:
  1. legal
  2. lawful
  3. allowed
  4. permitted
Illegal trafficking
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. piracy
  2. smuggling
  3. poaching
  4. violation of trade laws
  5. counterfeiting
  6. acquire
  7. bootlegging
  8. banned
  9. moonshining
  10. bootleg
  11. rumrunning
  12. cause
  13. gunrunning
  14. deflate
  15. develop
  16. black marketeering
  17. illegal
  18. drug traffic
  19. illicit
  20. wetbacking
  21. moonshine
  22. prohibited
  23. smuggled
  24. unlawful
Illegal goods
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. smuggled goods
  2. bootlegged goods
  3. poached goods
  4. seized goods
  5. confiscated goods
  6. goods subject to confiscation
  7. goods subject to seizure
  8. contraband of war
  9. plunder
  10. narcotics
  11. hot goods
  12. forbidden-fruit
Black-market production
(Noun)
Antonyms:
  1. legal goods

Words Related to Contraband

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Contraband Sentence Examples

  • I thought you were involved in drugs or contraband of some sort... you were so secretive.

  • No estimate can be made of the contraband, which must have been large.

  • I figured he was dealing with some kind of contraband.

  • The trade was contraband, and the opium was bought by the Chinese from depot ships at the ports.

  • This state of things, it was plain, must continue as long as the trade was only a contraband commerce, involving merely pecuniary penalties.

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