Lawful synonyms and antonyms

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In or into a satisfactory state or condition:

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By right, by law.

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Factually fair; right, correct; proper.

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Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.

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Sanctioned by law or custom; lawful

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In conformity with or permitted by law:

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Required, mandatory

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Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.

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Of, or having the nature of, a statute or statutes

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That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.

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Established by authority.

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(comparative more ordered, superlative most ordered)

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Explicitly allowed.

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according to edict

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Conforming to a legal or political constitution.

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Created through legislation.

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Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal

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according to fiat

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Having full ownership rights, especially after certain conditions such as a period of service, have been met:

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within the law

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in conformity to the law

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conformable with the law

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According to recognised or orthodox rules.

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Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.

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illegal (antonym)

(Of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally.

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unlawful (antonym)

Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).

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illegitimate. See syn. study at legal.legal (antonym)

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permitted (related)

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Expected or scheduled, especially appointed to arrive:

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(Figuratively, by extension) In accordance with standards or usual practice.

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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:

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seeunlawful (antonym)

allowable, legitimate

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illegitimate (antonym)

(Botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.

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prohibited (antonym)

Forbidden; unallowed

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taboo (antonym)

Restricted by taboo

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illicit (antonym)

Not sanctioned by custom or law; improper or unlawful.

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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.

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(Logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.

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rule-governed

according to custom or rule or natural law

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prohibit (related)

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lawfully (related)

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authorize (related)

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expedient (related)

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Find another word for lawful. In this page you can discover 56 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for lawful, like: right, legalized, rightful, just, licit, legitimate, legal, mandated, valid, statutory and passed.