illegal
Meaning of illegal
noun
- An illegal act or technique.
- (plural, as illegals) Contraband, esp. illegal substances such as drugs.
- An illegal immigrant.
- A spy working abroad illegally and undercover, without visible ties to his or her country’s authorities.
- Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
Nearly 40 million people live in UK areas with illegal air pollution
- Forbidden by established rules.
Moving a pawn backward is an illegal move in chess.
- (of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
- (of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally.
illegal immigrant; illegal logger; illegal pilot
- (sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
Information about illegal
- The plural form of illegal is: illegals.
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Hyphenation of illegal
il-le-gal
- It consists of 3 syllables and 7 chars.
- illegal is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
illegal synonyms
Meaning :
criminal, felonious, illicit, irregular, unlawful, bogus
illegal antonyms
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Translation of illegal
- Spanish: ilegal, ilícito, ilícita, ilegítimo
- French: illégal, ilegal
- Portuguese: ilegal
- Italian: illecito, illegittimo, illegale
- German: illegal, rechtswidrig, gesetzwidrig, gesetzeswidrig
Words that rhyme with illegal
egal, Daegal, Biblicolegal, antelegal, extralegal, legal, medicolegal, nonlegal, paralegal, philosophicolegal, postlegal, prelegal, preterlegal, pseudolegal, semilegal, sociolegal, supralegal, unlegal, megal, Donegal, Senegal, senegal, unegal, pteropegal, gregal, interregal, medregal, paregal, pedregal, peregal, preregal, pseudoregal, regal, superregal, unparegal, unregal, viceregal, Segal, Artegal, Ortegal, branchiostegal, gastrostegal, urostegal
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