Synonyms for legal
ˈli gəlle·gal

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1. legaladjective

   Being allowed or prescribed by law, such as a legal motion.

   Antonyms:
   contraband, disallowed, illegal, forbidden, banned, outlawed

2. legaladjective

   Antonyms:
   back-alley, black-market

3. legaladjective

   Antonyms:
   underage

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1. legal

   Synonyms:
   innocent, just, lawful, meritorious, moral, right, virtuous

   Antonyms:
   abominable, criminal, culpable, felonious, flagitious, guilty, illegal, immoral, iniquitous, nefarious, sinful, unlawful, vicious, vile, wicked, wrong

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1. legal

   Synonyms:
   legitimate, lawful, allowable, juridical, constitutional

   Antonyms:
   illegal, illegitimate, unlawful, unallowable, lay, unconstitutional

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1. legaladjective

   established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

   Antonyms:
   ineligible, amerciable, embezzled, penal, bootleg, unratified, misbranded, ill-gotten, smuggled, illegal, extrajudicial, banned, felonious, hot, black, criminal, punishable, contraband, extralegal, dirty, outlawed, under-the-counter, outlaw(a), unlawful, invalid, illicit, black-market, mislabeled, illegitimate, nonlegal, prohibited, misappropriated

2. legaladjective

   of or relating to jurisprudence

   "legal loophole"

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

   Antonyms:
   black-market, ineligible, extrajudicial, mislabeled, ill-gotten, illegal, embezzled, outlawed, unratified, contraband, bootleg, extralegal, misappropriated, unlawful, punishable, dirty, illegitimate, under-the-counter, outlaw(a), amerciable, smuggled, felonious, criminal, prohibited, nonlegal, banned, misbranded, penal, illicit, black, invalid, hot

3. legal, sound, effectualadjective

   having legal efficacy or force

   "a sound title to the property"

   Synonyms:
   sound, heavy, effective, wakeless, efficacious, profound, good, healthy, reasoned, intelligent, level-headed, well-grounded, levelheaded, effectual

   Antonyms:
   dirty, ineligible, unratified, illicit, extrajudicial, embezzled, outlaw(a), black-market, under-the-counter, bootleg, smuggled, hot, outlawed, penal, criminal, misappropriated, felonious, ill-gotten, black, unlawful, invalid, illegitimate, banned, punishable, prohibited, illegal, nonlegal, extralegal, amerciable, misbranded, mislabeled, contraband

4. legaladjective

   relating to or characteristic of the profession of law

   "the legal profession"

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

   Antonyms:
   black-market, banned, illegitimate, punishable, unratified, misappropriated, dirty, amerciable, extrajudicial, ineligible, hot, black, misbranded, mislabeled, outlawed, outlaw(a), illegal, prohibited, bootleg, penal, contraband, ill-gotten, illicit, unlawful, under-the-counter, invalid, felonious, criminal, embezzled, smuggled, nonlegal, extralegal

5. legaladjective

   allowed by official rules

   "a legal pass receiver"

   Synonyms:
   sound, effectual

   Antonyms:
   illicit, misappropriated, outlawed, felonious, penal, banned, unratified, amerciable, outlaw(a), ill-gotten, criminal, unlawful, illegitimate, invalid, bootleg, embezzled, dirty, smuggled, black, misbranded, hot, ineligible, nonlegal, under-the-counter, contraband, extralegal, punishable, mislabeled, black-market, extrajudicial, prohibited, illegal

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1. legaladjective

   Synonyms:
   lawful, legitimate, legalized, authorized or sanctioned (by law), according to law

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1. legaladjective

   Synonyms:
   lawful, legitimate

   Antonyms:
   illegal

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1. List of paraphrases for "legal":

   judicial, juridical, lawful, law, statutory, legislative, juridique, laws, legitimate, juridiques, legally, moral, morales, jurídica, jurídico, justice, qanooni, juristische, jurídicas, legale, licit, qanouni, forensic, legislation, qanoni, jurisdictional, judiciary, right, oikeudellinen, kanoni, regulatory, jurists, pravni, court, lawyers

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1. Jerry Nadler:

   The President says The President doesn't want people talking about certain things, but they have already talked about those things to Mueller and to others. So that means if there was any executive privilege it's been waived, you can not waive the privilege and then reassert it, so there is no legal excuse whatsoever... The only question is how long they will draw it out in court before the subpoena is followed, and how contemptuous of Congress this administration will be.

2. Thomas Pepinsky:

   The strength of the incumbent regime must not be underestimated, it retains the legal, infrastructural, and material resources that it has always used to prevail in Malaysia's controlled elections.

3. Barry County:

   Well, you look at Michigan Militia Michigan Militia and the originations of Michigan Militia, they have more of a legal standing in this country than the agencies that arrested them.

4. Michael Knowles:

   Based on our experience with him, we can expect him to manage a healthy balance between the important mission of securing the border, enforcing our laws, while ensuring a fair and efficient legal immigration process.

5. Editor Curtis Houck:

   It was naturally incumbent on Anderson Cooper as a journalist to ask Bharara and give him a chance to respond, for all of Bharara's celebrity, Schneiderman seemed to be right up there in terms of stardom in the liberal New York legal circles and lawyers to lead the Resistance.