Illegal

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Prohibited by law.
  • adj. Prohibited by official rules: an illegal pass in football.
  • adj. Unacceptable to or not performable by a computer: an illegal operation.
  • n. An illegal immigrant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
  • adj. Forbidden by established rules
  • adj. Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
  • adj. Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
  • n. An illegal immigrant.
  • n. An illegal resident spy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not legal; contrary to law; unlawful; illicit: as, an illegal act; illegal commerce.
  • Synonyms Illegal, Felonious, etc. (See criminal.) Unlawful, Illegitimate, etc. (See lawful.)
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules
  • Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unlawful    illicit    bogus   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Eagle    Segal    beagle    eagle    extralegal    legal    paralegal    regal    reigle    spiegel   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unlawful    unjust    foreign    dangerous    improper    immoral    legitimate    unauthorized    unnecessary