Lawless synonyms
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Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.
unruly (related)
Difficult or impossible to discipline, control, or rule:
Wrong or unjust:
Used to describe behaviours deemed savage or inappropriate.
Not domesticated or cultivated; wild:
Occurring in nature pure or uncombined with other substances:
Inadequately educated; lacking art or knowledge; unrefined; uncultured; uncivilized.
Cruel; brutal
Hostile and violent, especially by nature or temperament; ferocious:
Very forceful:
Characterized by disorder, commotion, or unrest:
Not peaceful, the opposite of peaceful.
Of, relating to, or resembling a tempest:
Physically or mentally ill.
Shaken; perturbed; excited
Designating or of a faction in revolt against the leadership of a political party
Turbulent and uncontrollable:
Without restraint; disorderly; boisterous
Of or relating to nihilism.
Not following established customs, beliefs, etc.
Breaking with convention or tradition; not orthodox.
Of, related to, or being involved in sedition; treasonous or subversive.
in defiance of the law
Not restrained by law
Of or involving treason; treasonable
Obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate.
Of, characterized by, favoring, or causing a revolution in a government or social system
Not obedient.
Not restrained by law
Characterized by tyranny; despotic.
Departing from or opposed to the usual beliefs or established doctrines, esp. in religion; inclining toward heresy; unorthodox
Of or like a despot; autocratic; tyrannical
Shameful; disgraceful:
(Computing, programming, slang) undesirable; harmful; bad practice
Not restrained by law
Marked by defiance; boldly resisting.
(--- Brit.) Indecent; obscene
Difficult to manage or deal with:
transgressive
Of or relating to a genre of fiction, filmmaking, or art characterized by graphic depictions of behavior that violate socially acceptable norms, often involving violence, drug use, and sexual deviancy.
cultured (antonym)
Produced or obtained by cultivation
cultivated (antonym)
(Of land) farmed
controlled (antonym)
Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
uncontrolled (related)
Not under control, discipline, or governance.
rebellious (related)
The definition of rebellious is a person who is resistant to authority or control.
Causing a disturbance; unruly; riotous
(Botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
Showing, or intended to excite, lust or sexual desire, esp. in an offensive way; lascivious
Lacking moral restraint, especially in sexual conduct.
mobocratic
Of or pertaining to mobocracy.
Lacking control or discipline
lawful (antonym)
In conformity with the principles of the law; permitted by law
governed (antonym)
reckless, ungoverned
legal (antonym)
The definition of legal is something connected to law or a government’s system of rules.
legitimate (antonym)
Being in compliance with the law; lawful:
proper (antonym)
Specially adapted or suitable to a specific purpose or specific conditions; appropriate
rightful (antonym)
Held or owned by just or proper claim:
orderly (antonym)
Free from disorder; neat or well-arranged:
The definition of illicit is something illegal, forbidden or culturally taboo.
Not lawful; illegal.
Inclined to make trouble; unruly.
Resistant to authority or discipline; recalcitrant.
Difficult to manage, deal with, or change to an acceptable condition:
The definition of obstinate is extremely stubborn and determined to have your own way.
The definition of obstreperous is someone that is noisy and hard to control.
Not able to be controlled, contained or governed.
Difficult to carry or maneuver; unwieldy:
Improper; unseemly:
Not inhabited or farmed:
out-of-line
crimes (related)
Prohibited by law
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.
control (related)
A standard of comparison for checking or verifying the results of an experiment. In an experiment to test the effectiveness of a new drug, for example, one group of subjects (the control group) receives an inactive substance or placebo , while a comparison group receives the drug being tested.
order (related)
A group of organisms ranking above a family and below a class.
peace (related)
Not submitting to discipline or control
resist (related)
Not submitting to discipline or control
disobedient to or defiant of law
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