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Entry Word:: legal
Function:: adjective

Text: 1 permitted by law<drinking is only legal if you are 21 years old>Synonymslawful, legitimateRelated Wordsallowable, authorized, noncriminal, permissible; justifiable, warrantable; regulation, statutory; good, innocent, proper, rightNear Antonymsbad, corrupt, evil, immoral, iniquitous, reprobate, sinful, wicked, wrong; banned, criminal, forbidden, guilty, outlawed, prohibited, unauthorized, unjust; nonconstitutional, unconstitutionalAntonymsillegal, illegitimate, illicit, unlawful, wrongful 2 following or according to the rules<the referee declared it a legal play>— see fair 3

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