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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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