Synonyms 53
Login/Register
infraction, breach, infringement; misdemeanor, Law. delict, transgression, fault, misdeed, wrongdoing, Law. malfeasance, Law. misfeasance; Law. felony, capital crime, outrage; moral offense, error, sin, wrong, trespass, Both Rom. Cath. Ch. venial sin, mortal sin; slip, lapse, backsliding; failure, neglect, negligence, delinquency, dereliction, omission, Law. nonfeasance.
lawful, adj. 1. legal, jural, according to law, de jure, licit, constitutional, permitted or allowed by law permissible, allowable.
2. legitimate, SI. legit, vested, entitled, rightful, right, just, valid, legally sound; sanctioned, authorized, empowered, chartered, licensed, legalized, warranted, commissioned; statutory, statutable, legislative, legislated; enacted, prescribed, ordained, ordered, decreed, edicted, mandated; appointed, constituted, designated, named, selected, chosen; approved, recognized, acknowledged, accepted, canonical.
3. judicial, judiciary, judicatory, juridical, jurisprudential, juristic, jurisdictive, forensic.
4. law-abiding, obedient, obeying, compliant, complying. See - law-abiding.
lawfulness, n. 1. legality, constitutionality; permissibility, permissibleness, allowableness.
2. legitimacy, legitimateness, accordance with the law; right, rightfulness, validness, validity, legal soundness.
3. permission, liberty, license, formal consent, sanction; authority, authorization, legalization, warrant, commission; appointment, ordination, decreeing, designation, naming, selection; approval, recognition, acknowledgment, acceptance.
lawless, adj. 1. rebellious, mutinous, insurrectionary, insurgent, seditious, seditionary, revo'utionary, secessionist, riotous, terrorist; defiant, unsubmissive, insubordinate, disobedient, wayward; ungovernable, intractable, uncontrollable, unconformable, noncom-pliant; refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; nonconformist, unconventional, nonconforming, eccentric, deviatory, deviative, divergent.
2. unbridled, unrestrained, unchecked, ungoverned; chaotic, rampageous, unruly, lax, loose, disorderly, disorganized; nihilistic, anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic; intemperate, immoderate, incontinent, self-indulgent; dissipated, licentious, wanton; wild, rampant.
3. illegal, unlawful, illicit, law-breaking; criminal, felonious, larcenous, malfeasant, misfeasant, trans-gressive, offending, violating, violational, violative.
4. dishonest, unprincipled, unscrupulous, Inf crooked, villainous, piratical; nefarious, wicked, iniquitous, flagitious; vile, foul, corrupt, venal, miscreant; reprobate, miscreant, depraved, degenerate, dissolute; knavish, roguish, rascally, scampish.
lawlessness, n. 1. anarchy, anarchism, chaos; terrorism, nihilism, violence, destructiveness; reign of terror, ochlocracy, mobocracy, mob rule; rebellion, mutiny, insurrection, sedition, insurgency, revolt, uprising, revolution, riot.
2. crime, criminality, felonious or larcenous conduct, malfeasance, misfeasance, racketeering, piracy; dishonesty, unscrupulousness, unscrupulosity, unprincipledness, Inf crookedness; illegality, unlawfulness, illicitness.
3. unrestraint, abandon, license, unruliness, laxity, looseness; disorder, confusion, disarray, disorganization.
4. licentiousness, wantonness, dissipation, profligacy; self-indulgence, intemperance, immoderation, incontinence.
5. disobedience, insubordination, waywardness, intractability, uncontrollability; noncompliance, nonconformity, recalcitrance, contumaciousness.
My Account / Test History
The people in Bali only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut .. More >>
