unlawful

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=law=ful
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

unlawful, a. 

 Not lawful; contrary to law.  [1913 Webster]

Unlawful assembly. (Law) See under Assembly.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unlawful, adj. not lawful; illegal, not permissible.

Derivative

unlawfully adv. unlawfulness n.

THESAURUS

unlawful

aberrant, abnormal, abominable, actionable, against the law, anarchic, anarchistic, anomic, atrocious, banned, barred, black-market, bootleg, chargeable, contraband, contrary to law, criminal, delinquent, deviant, disgraceful, evil, exceptionable, felonious, flawed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, hardly the thing, ignominious, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, iniquitous, interdicted, intolerable, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nefarious, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonpermissible, not done, not permitted, not the thing, objectionable, off limits, off-base, off-color, out of bounds, out-of-line, outlaw, outlawed, prohibited, proscribed, punishable, ruled out, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, taboo, tabooed, terrible, triable, unallowed, unauthorized, unconstitutional, under the ban, under the table, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undue, unfit, unfitting, unlicensed, unofficial, unpermissible, unrighteous, unsanctioned, unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, untouchable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wicked, wrong, wrongful

ROGET THESAURUS

unlawful

Illegality

N illegality, lawlessness, illicitness, breach of law, violation of law, infraction of the law, disobedience, unconformity, arbitrariness, antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry, mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law, coup d'etat, le droit du plus fort, argumentum baculinum, illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister, trover and conversion, smuggling, poaching, simony, outlaw, bad man, v, offend against the law, violate the law, infringe the law, break the law, set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute, ignore the law, make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands, smuggle, run, poach, illegal, unlawful, illegitimate, not allowed, prohibited, illicit, contraband, actionable, unwarranted, unwarrantable, unauthorized, informal, unofficial, injudicial, extrajudicial, lawless, arbitrary, despotic, despotical, corrupt, summary, irresponsible, unanswerable, unaccountable, expired, invalid, unchartered, unconstitutional, null and void, a dead letter, lawless, unregulated, illegally, with a high hand, in violation of law.

Undueness

N undueness, malum prohibitum, impropriety, illegality, falseness, emptiness of title, invalidity of title, illegitimacy, loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture, usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption, assumption, seizure, stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share, usurper, pretender, undue, unlawful, unconstitutional, illicit, unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed, unsanctioned, unjustified, unentitled, disentitled, unqualified, disqualified, unprivileged, unchartered, illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false, usurped, tortious, undeserved, unmerited, unearned, unfulfilled, forfeited, disfranchised, improper, unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly, unbecoming, misbecoming, seemless, contra bonos mores, not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of, preposterous, pretentious, would-be, filius nullius.