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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Illegal \Il*le"gal\, adjective [Pref. il- not + legal: cf. F. ill['e]gal.] Not according to, or authorized by, law; specif., contrary to, or in violation of, human law; unlawful; illicit; hence, immoral; as, an illegal act; illegal trade; illegal love. --Bp. Burnet.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
illegal
adjective: prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move" [ant: {legal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
105 Moby Thesaurus words for "illegal": 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, felonious, flawed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, hardly the thing, hot, ignominious, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inequitable, infamous, iniquitous, interdicted, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonpermissible, not done, not permitted, not the thing, 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, unbalanced, unconstitutional, under the ban, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undeserved, undue, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unlawful, unlicensed, unmeet, unmerited, unofficial, unpermissible, unrighteous, unrightful, unsanctioned, unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, untouchable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wicked, wrong, wrongful
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