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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unlawful \Un*law"ful\, adjective Not lawful; contrary to law. -- {Un*law"ful*ly}, adverb -- {Un*law"ful*ness}, noun
{Unlawful assembly}. (Law) See under {Assembly}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unlawful
adjective
1: not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; "an unconventional marriage"; "improper banking practices" [syn: {improper}, {unconventional}]
2: contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law; "unlawful measures"; "unlawful money"; "unlawful hunters" [ant: {lawful}]
3: not morally right or permissible; "unlawful love"
4: having no legally established claim; "the wrongful heir to the throne" [syn: {wrongful}]
5: contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" [syn: {illegitimate}, {illicit}, {outlaw(a)}, {outlawed}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
99 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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