Lawful Synonyms and Antonyms

lôfəl
Allowable, legitimate
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. true
  2. rule-governed
  3. rightful
Antonyms:
  1. seeunlawful
  2. unlawful
  3. illegal
  4. illegitimate
  5. prohibited
  6. taboo
  7. illicit
Within, allowed by, or sanctioned by the law
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. legal
  2. legitimate
  3. licit
  4. just
  5. authorized
  6. legalized
  7. constitutional
  8. rightful
  9. established
  10. official
  11. legit
  12. innocent
  13. right
  14. valid
  15. statutory
  16. passed
  17. decreed
  18. judged
  19. commanded
  20. ruled
  21. enjoined
  22. ordained
  23. ordered
  24. mandated
  25. according to edict
  26. due
  27. adjudged
  28. legislated
  29. enacted
  30. according to fiat
  31. enforced
  32. protected
  33. kosher
  34. permissible
  35. vested
  36. within the law
  37. in conformity to the law
  38. conformable with the law
  39. legitimatized
  40. canonical
Antonyms:
  1. unlawful
  2. illegal
  3. illegitimate. See syn. study at legal.legal
  4. illegitimate

Words Related to Lawful

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.

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.

  • By the law of God and man you should have subsistence and lawful to take it."

  • In its sixth chapter the question whether it is lawful to overthrow a tyrant is freely discussed and answered in the affirmative, a circumstance which brought much odium upon the Jesuits, especially after the assassination of Henry IV.

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