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unlawful

English

  1. 🔊 contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law
    “unlawful measures”
  2. 🔊 having no legally established claim
    “the wrongful heir to the throne”
  3. 🔊 not morally right or permissible
    “unlawful love”
  4. 🔊 not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention
    “an unconventional marriage”
  5. 🔊 contrary to or forbidden by law
    “an illegitimate seizure of power”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 antirreglamentario unlawful, illegal, unauthorized

Similar words

illegitimate illicit outlaw(a) outlawed wrongful improper unconventional aberrant abnormal abominable actionable against the law anarchic anarchistic anomic atrocious banned barred black-market bootleg chargeable contraband contrary to law criminal