illegal

1. Prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules (synset 301404858)
   "an illegal chess move"
   also:

   • unlawful - contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law
   • illegitimate - of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
   • irregular - contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice
   tells us about: legality - lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute
   similar to:

   • amerciable - of a crime or misdemeanor; punishable by a fine set by a judge
   • banned, prohibited - forbidden by law
   • black, black-market, bootleg, contraband, smuggled - distributed or sold illicitly
   • criminal, felonious - involving or being or having the nature of a crime
   • dirty, ill-gotten - obtained illegally or by improper means
   • embezzled, misappropriated - taken for your own use in violation of a trust
   • extrajudicial - beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted
   • extralegal, nonlegal - not regulated or sanctioned by law
   • hot - recently stolen or smuggled
   • illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful - contrary to or forbidden by law
   • ineligible - prohibited by official rules
   • misbranded, mislabeled - branded or labeled falsely and in violation of statutory requirements
   • penal, punishable - (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law
   • under-the-counter - done or sold illicitly and secretly
   • unratified - lacking legal authority

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