Grep  of  noun  legal 
  legal  action 
  legal  age 
  legal  assistant 
  legal  brief 
  legal  code 
  legal  community 
  legal  document 
  legal  duty 
  legal  expert 
  legal  fee 
  legal  fraud 
  legal  guardian 
  legal  holiday 
  legal  injury 
  legal  instrument 
  legal  ouster 
  legal  philosophy 
  legal  power 
  legal  principle 
  legal  proceeding 
  legal  profession 
  legal  relation 
  legal  representation 
  legal  representative 
  legal  right 
  legal  separation 
  legal  status 
  legal  system 
  legal  tender 
  legal  transfer 
  legalese 
  legalisation 
  legalism 
  legality 
  legalization 
  paralegal 
 
  Overview  of  adj  legal 
 
  The  adj  legal  has  5  senses  (first  4  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (11)  legal  --  (established  by  or  founded  upon  law  or  official  or  accepted  rules) 
  2.  (5)  legal  --  (of  or  relating  to  jurisprudence;  "legal  loophole") 
  3.  (3)  legal,  sound  --  (having  legal  efficacy  or  force;  "a  sound  title  to  the  property") 
  4.  (2)  legal  --  (relating  to  or  characteristic  of  the  profession  of  law;  "the  legal  profession") 
  5.  legal  --  ((sports)  allowed  by  official  rules  "a  legal  pass  receiver") 
 
  Antonyms  of  adj  legal 
 
  3  of  5  senses  of  legal 
 
  Sense  1 
  legal  (vs.  illegal) 
 
  illegal  (vs.  legal) 
  =>  amerciable 
  =>  banned,  prohibited 
  =>  bootleg,  black,  black-market,  contraband,  smuggled 
  =>  criminal,  felonious 
  =>  dirty,  ill-gotten 
  =>  embezzled,  misappropriated 
  =>  extrajudicial 
  =>  extralegal,  nonlegal 
  =>  hot 
  =>  illegitimate,  illicit,  outlaw(postnominal),  outlawed,  unlawful 
  =>  ineligible 
  =>  misbranded,  mislabeled 
  =>  under-the-counter 
  =>  unratified 
  =>  penal,  punishable 
 
  Sense  3 
  legal,  sound 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  valid)  ->  invalid 
 
  Sense  5 
  legal 
 
  INDIRECT  (VIA  eligible)  ->  ineligible 
 
  Similarity  of  adj  legal 
 
  5  senses  of  legal 
 
  Sense  1 
  legal  (vs.  illegal) 
  =>  ineligible 
  =>  judicial 
  =>  jural,  juristic 
  =>  lawful,  legitimate,  licit 
  =>  ratified,  sanctioned 
  =>  statutory 
  =>  sub  judice 
  =>  eligible 
  Also  See->  lawful#1;  legitimate#1 
 
  Sense  2 
  legal 
  Pertains  to  noun  law  (Sense  2) 
  =>law,  jurisprudence 
  =>  collection,  aggregation,  accumulation,  assemblage 
 
  Sense  3 
  legal,  sound 
  =>  valid  (vs.  invalid) 
 
  Sense  4 
  legal 
  Pertains  to  noun  law  (Sense  5) 
  =>law,  practice  of  law 
  =>  learned  profession 
 
  Sense  5 
  legal 
  =>  eligible  (vs.  ineligible) 
 
  Attributes  of  adj  legal 
 
  1  of  5  senses  of  legal 
 
  Sense  1 
  legal  (vs.  illegal) 
  =>  legality 
 
  Familiarity  of  adj  legal 
 
  legal  used  as  an  adjective  is  common  (polysemy  count  =  5) 
 
  Grep  of  adj  legal 
  extralegal 
  illegal 
  legal 
  medicolegal 
  nonlegal 
 
  Overview  of  adj  legal 
 
  The  adj  legal  has  5  senses  (first  4  from  tagged  texts) 
 
  1.  (11)  legal  --  (established  by  or  founded  upon  law  or  official  or  accepted  rules) 
  2.  (5)  legal  --  (of  or  relating  to  jurisprudence;  "legal  loophole") 
  3.  (3)  legal,  sound  --  (having  legal  efficacy  or  force;  "a  sound  title  to  the  property") 
  4.  (2)  legal  --  (relating  to  or  characteristic  of  the  profession  of  law;  "the  legal  profession") 
  5.  legal  --  ((sports)  allowed  by  official  rules  "a  legal  pass  receiver") 

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