Lawful synonyms

lô'fəl

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right
In or into a satisfactory state or condition:
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legalized
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rightful
Held or owned by just or proper claim:
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just
Factually fair; right, correct; proper.
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legitimate
Sanctioned by law or custom; lawful
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legal
In conformity with or permitted by law:
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mandated
Required, mandatory
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valid
Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
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statutory
Of, or having the nature of, a statute or statutes
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passed
That has passed a given qualification or examination; qualified.
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decreed
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judged
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commanded
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ruled
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enjoined
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ordained
Established by authority.
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ordered
(comparative more ordered, superlative most ordered)
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according to edict
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constitutional
Conforming to a legal or political constitution.
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adjudged
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legislated
Created through legislation.
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enacted
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official
Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal
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according to fiat
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enforced
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licit
Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.
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vested
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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canonical
According to recognised or orthodox rules.
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established
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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due
Expected or scheduled, especially appointed to arrive:
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kosher
(Figuratively, by extension) In accordance with standards or usual practice.
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legit
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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permissible
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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innocent
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.
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true
(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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Lawful Sentence Examples

  • Young Adams graduated from Harvard College in 1740, and three years later, on attaining the degree of A.M., chose for his thesis, "Whether it be Lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved."

  • Or would she be merely submitting to his lawful privileges?

  • Yet Judaism under Roman Christian law was a lawful religion (religio licita), Valentinian I.

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