Synonyms of the word

illegal

• adj. Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
• adj. Forbidden by established rules.
• adj. (philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent…
• adj. (of a person, sometimes offensive) Being or doing something illegally.
• adj. (chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
• n. (colloquial, offensive) An illegal immigrant.
• n. An illegal resident spy.

banned

• v. simple past tense and past participle of ban.
• adj. Forbidden; not allowed.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

black-market

• adj. Traded on the black market.
• adj. Contraband, bootleg or smuggled.
• v. (intransitive) To participate in a black market.
• v. (transitive) To sell in a black market.

bootleg

• v. (chiefly US, transitive) to make, transport and/or sell illegal alcoholic liquor.
• v. (transitive) to make, transport and/or sell an illegal version or copy of a copyrighted product.
• v. (intransitive) to engage in bootlegging.
• n. The part of a boot that is above the instep.
• n. An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband.
• n. (music) A remix or mashup that is a combination of two songs but that is authorized and audited for copyright…
• n. (American football) A play in which the quarterback fakes a handoff, conceals the ball against his hip,…
• adj. illegally produced, transported or sold; pirated.

contraband

• n. (uncountable) any goods which are illicit or illegal to possess.
• n. (uncountable) goods which are prohibited from being traded, smuggled goods.
• n. (countable, US, historical) A black slave during the American Civil War who had escaped to, or been captured…
• adj. prohibited from being traded.
• v. (obsolete) To import illegally; to smuggle.
• v. (obsolete) To declare prohibited; to forbid.

criminal

• adj. Being against the law; forbidden by law.
• adj. Guilty of breaking the law.
• adj. Of or relating to crime or penal law.
• adj. (figuratively) Abhorrent or very undesirable, even if allowed by law.
• n. A person who is guilty of a crime, notably breaking the law.

dirty

• adj. Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.
• adj. That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.
• adj. Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.
• adj. Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.
• adj. Corrupt, illegal, or improper.
• adj. Out of tune.
• adj. Of color, discolored by impurities.
• adj. (computing) Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.
• adj. (slang) Carrying illegal drugs among one's possessions or inside of one's bloodstream.
• adj. (informal) Used as an intensifier, especially in conjunction with "great".
• adj. Sleety; gusty; stormy.
• adv. In a dirty manner.
• v. (transitive) To make (something) dirty.
• v. (transitive) To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.
• v. (transitive) To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).
• v. (intransitive) To become soiled.

embezzled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of embezzle.

extrajudicial

• adj. (law) Out of or beyond the power or authority of a court or judge; beyond jurisdiction.
• adj. (law, of a punishment) Carried out without legal authority.

extralegal

• adj. Occurring outside the law; not governed by law; lawless.

felonious

• adj. Of, relating to, being, or having the quality of felony.
• adj. (law) Done with intent to commit a crime.

hot

• adj. (of an object) Having a high temperature.
• adj. (of the weather) Causing the air to be hot.
• adj. (of a person or animal) Feeling the sensation of heat, especially to the point of discomfort.
• adj. (of a temper) Easily provoked to anger.
• adj. Feverish.
• adj. (of food) Spicy.
• adj. (informal) Very good, remarkable, exciting.
• adj. Stolen.
• adj. (incomparable) Electrically charged.
• adj. (informal) Radioactive.
• adj. (slang, of a person) Very physically and/or sexually attractive.
• adj. (slang) Sexual; involving sexual intercourse or sexual excitement.
• adj. (slang) Sexually aroused; horny.
• adj. Popular; in demand.
• adj. Very close to finding or guessing something to be found or guessed.
• adj. Performing strongly; having repeated successes.
• adj. Fresh; just released.
• adj. Uncomfortable, difficult to deal with; awkward, dangerous, unpleasant.
• adj. (slang) Used to emphasize the short duration or small quantity of something.
• v. (with up) To heat; to make or become hot.
• v. (with up) To become lively or exciting.

ill-gotten

• adj. Obtained improperly or illegally.

illegitimate

• adj. Illegal; against the law.
• adj. Born to unmarried parents.
• adj. Illogical; incorrectly deduced.
• adj. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious.
• adj. (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously…
• n. someone born illegitimately.

illicit

• adj. (law) Not approved by law, but not invalid.
• adj. Breaking social norms.
• adj. Unlawful.

ineligible

• adj. Not eligible; forbidden to do something.
• n. One who is not eligible.

irregular

• adj. Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
• adj. Of a surface, rough.
• adj. Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
• adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
• adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each…
• n. A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics.
• n. One who does not regularly attend a venue.

misappropriated

• v. simple past tense and past participle of misappropriate.

misbranded

• v. simple past tense and past participle of misbrand.
• adj. (US, law) Of a product, containing incorrect information on the label that would tend to deceive consumers…

mislabeled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of mislabel.

nonlegal

• adj. not law-related; not related to the practice of law.

outlaw

• n. A fugitive from the law.
• n. (historical) A criminal who is excluded from normal legal rights; one who can be killed at will without…
• n. A person who operates outside established norms.
• n. A wild horse.
• n. (humorous) An in-law: a relative by marriage.
• n. (slang) A prostitute who works alone, without a pimp.
• v. To declare illegal.
• v. To place a ban upon.
• v. To remove from legal jurisdiction or enforcement.
• v. To deprive of legal force.

outlawed

• adj. (of an act) put beyond the limits of the law, forbidden, against the law.
• adj. (of a person) put beyond the limits of the law, declared an outlaw or declared a criminal.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of outlaw.

penal

• adj. Of or relating to punishment.
• adj. Subject to punishment; punishable.
• adj. Serving as a place of punishment.

prohibited

• adj. Forbidden; unallowed.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of prohibit.

punishable

• adj. Able to be punished; appropriate for punishment.

smuggled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of smuggle.

under-the-counter

• adj. Illicit, obtained or sold furtively.

unlawful

• adj. Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).

unratified

• adj. Not ratified.