Lawful synonyms
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Part of speech:
Held or owned by just or proper claim:
In or into a satisfactory state or condition:
Sanctioned by law or custom; lawful
In conformity with or permitted by law:
Of, or having the nature of, a statute or statutes
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Established by authority.
(comparative more ordered, superlative most ordered)
according to edict
Conforming to a legal or political constitution.
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Created through legislation.
according to fiat
Having full ownership rights, especially after certain conditions such as a period of service, have been met:
within the law
in conformity to the law
conformable with the law
According to recognised or orthodox rules.
Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
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unlawful (antonym)
Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).
illegitimate. See syn. study at legal.legal (antonym)
permitted (related)
Expected or scheduled, especially appointed to arrive:
The definition of legit is slang for legitimate and refers to something that is legal, proper and/or done in conformance with the rules.
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Permitted; allowable:
seeunlawful (antonym)
allowable, legitimate
illegitimate (antonym)
(Botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
prohibited (antonym)
taboo (antonym)
Restricted by taboo
illicit (antonym)
Not sanctioned by custom or law; improper or unlawful.
Shakespeare
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law (related)
A statement that describes invariable relationships among phenomena under a specified set of conditions. Boyle's law, for instance, describes what will happen to the volume of an ideal gas if its pressure changes and its temperature remains the same. The conditions under which some physical laws hold are idealized (for example, there are no ideal gases in the real world), thus some physical laws apply universally but only approximately.
(Logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
rule-governed
according to custom or rule or natural law
prohibit (related)
lawfully (related)
authorize (related)
expedient (related)
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