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. Elie Honig:

   Even if a case was tried in a part of the country where Donald Trump is n’t very popular, statistically Jennifer Rodgers are very likely to end up with one or more Donald Trump voters on the jury of 12 people, a judge would tell jurors to put aside their political views and personal beliefs — but I know from my days as a prosecutor that jurors are human beings, not robots — they’re subject to the same emotions, biases, and incentives as any person would be. And the legal bar at trial is far higher than in the grand jury ….

2. Yasuo Hasebe:

   I think allowing the use of the right of collective self-defense violates the constitution, it cannot be explained within the framework of the basic logic of the past government views ... and considerably damages legal stability.

3. Bernie Sanders:

   It is time to give them legal status, it is time to create a reasonable and responsible path to citizenship.

4. Joshua Matz:

   Nobody denies that the president wields extraordinary power over immigration and national security, what's at stake here is the president's ability to evade any legal consequence for his own public statements, including those broadcast on a global stage.

5. Asha Hassan:

   It’s fair to be confused about all of the different ways in which somebody can get access to medication abortion and wonder which ways are legal and which ways are a little bit more outside of the legal framework, we’re in a learning curve right now. But then, the education has to change because it is constantly a shifting climate.