Synonyms of the word lawful


LAWFULLAW-ABIDING - LEGAL - LEGITIMATE - LICIT - OBSERVANT - ORDERLY - REGULAR - RIGHTFUL - SQUARE - STRAIGHT - TRUE

lawful

  • adj. Conforming to, or recognised by law or rules.

law-abiding

  • adj. Obeying the laws of society; not a lawbreaker; without a criminal record.

legal

  • adj. Relating to the law or to lawyers.
  • adj. Having its basis in the law.
  • adj. Being allowed or prescribed by law.
  • adj. (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
  • n. (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company.
  • n. (uncountable, US, Canada) Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).
  • n. (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.

legitimate

  • adj. In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.
  • adj. Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
  • adj. Authentic, real, genuine.
  • adj. Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
  • adj. Relating to hereditary rights.
  • n. A person born to a legally married couple.
  • v. To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person…

licit

  • adj. Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.
  • adj. (law) Explicitly established or constituted by law.

observant

  • adj. Alert and paying close attention; watchful.
  • adj. Diligently attentive in observing a law, custom, duty or principle; regardful; mindful.

orderly

  • adj. Neat and tidy; possessing order.
  • adj. Methodical or systematic.
  • adj. Peaceful; well-behaved.
  • adj. Being on duty; keeping order; conveying orders.
  • n. A hospital attendant given a variety of non-medical duties.
  • n. A soldier who carries out minor tasks for a superior officer.
  • adv. (now rare) According to good order or practice; appropriately, in a well-behaved way.
  • adv. (obsolete) In order; in a particular order or succession; with a suitable arrangement.

regular

  • adj. (Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to…
  • adj. Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.
  • adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same…
  • adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.
  • adj. Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.
  • adj. (now rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).
  • adj. Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.
  • adj. (grammar, of a verb, plural, etc) Following a set or common pattern; according to the normal rules of…
  • adj. (chiefly US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.
  • adj. (chiefly military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.
  • adj. Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.
  • adj. (colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.
  • adj. Belonging to a monastic order or community.
  • adj. (botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.
  • adj. (crystallography) isometric.
  • adj. (snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward.
  • adj. (analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular…
  • adv. (archaic, Britain, dialect) Regularly, on a regular basis.
  • n. A member of the British Army (as opposed to a member of the Territorial Army or Reserve).
  • n. A frequent, routine visitor to an establishment.
  • n. A frequent customer, client or business partner.
  • n. (Canada) A coffee with one cream and one sugar.
  • n. Anything that is normal or standard.

rightful

  • adj. By right, by law.

square

  • n. (geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle;…
  • n. (metonymically) Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
  • n. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
  • n. An open space normally in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees,…
  • n. (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number,…
  • n. (military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
  • n. (1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in…
  • n. (Britain) The symbol on a telephone; hash.
  • n. (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one ore more pitches of which only one is used at…
  • n. (real estate jargon) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square…
  • n. (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
  • n. (academia) A mortarboard.
  • n. (colloquial, US) A square meal.
  • n. (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
  • n. The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
  • n. (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
  • n. (dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
  • n. (slang) Cigarette.
  • n. (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
  • adj. Shaped like a square (the polygon).
  • adj. Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to…
  • adj. Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.
  • adj. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
  • adj. Honest; straightforward.
  • adj. Fair.
  • adj. Even; tied.
  • adj. (slang) Socially conventional; boring.
  • adj. (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
  • adj. Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
  • adj. hearty; vigorous.
  • adj. Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
  • v. (transitive) To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular.
  • v. To resolve or reconcile.
  • v. To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term, or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second…
  • v. (transitive) To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
  • v. (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch.
  • v. (archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
  • v. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
  • v. (obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
  • v. To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
  • v. To form with four sides and four right angles.
  • v. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
  • v. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
  • v. (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.

straight

  • adj. Not crooked or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.
  • adj. (obsolete, rare) Strait; narrow.
  • adj. Figurative uses.
  • adj. Colloquial uses.
  • adj. (sciences, mathematics) concerning the property allowing the parallel-transport of vectors along a course…
  • adv. Of a direction relative to the subject, precisely; as if following a direct line.
  • adv. Directly; without pause, delay or detour.
  • adv. Continuously; without interruption or pause.
  • n. Something that is not crooked or bent such as a part of a road or track.
  • n. (poker) Five cards in sequence.
  • n. (colloquial) A heterosexual.
  • n. (slang) A normal person; someone in mainstream society.
  • n. (slang) A cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana. Also straighter.
  • v. (transitive) To straighten.

true

  • adj. (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
  • adj. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
  • adj. (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
  • adj. Loyal, faithful.
  • adj. Genuine.
  • adj. Legitimate.
  • adj. (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
  • adj. (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
  • adv. (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
  • n. Truth.
  • n. The state of being in alignment.
  • v. To straighten.
  • v. To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.

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