Illegal

Adjective

 * 1)  Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
 * 2) Not permitted by rules
 * Moving a pawn backward is an illegal move in chess.
 * 1)  Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
 * 2)  Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.

Synonyms

 * criminal, felonious, illicit, unlawful
 * bogus

Antonyms

 * lawful, legal

Derived terms

 * illegal alien
 * illegal immigrant

Noun

 * 1)  An illegal immigrant.

Adverbs for Illegal
notoriously; admittedly; obviously; dangerously; trickily; shamelessly; vaguely; obscurely;  flagrantly;   perilously;   riskily; openly; daringly; audaciously; villainously; viciously; flagitiously; shamefully.

Thesaurus
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, felonious, flawed, forbade, forbid, forbidden, hardly the thing, hot, ignominious, illegitimate, illicit, impermissible, improper, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, inequitable, infamous, iniquitous, interdicted, irregular, justiciable, lawless, nonconstitutional, nonlegal, nonlicit, nonpermissible, not done, not permitted, not the thing, 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, unbalanced, unconstitutional, under the ban, under-the-counter, under-the-table, undeserved, undue, unequal, unequitable, uneven, unfit, unfitting, unjust, unlawful, unlicensed, unmeet, unmerited, unofficial, unpermissible, unrighteous, unrightful, unsanctioned, unseemly, unstatutory, unsuitable, untouchable, unwarrantable, unwarranted, verboten, vetoed, wicked, wrong, wrongful

Etymology
From il- (an assimilated version of in-) + legal. In senses relating to immigration, via clipping from illegal alien or illegal immigrant.

Adjective

 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 不合法
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, illegaal, onwettig
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:, έκνομος,  άνομος


 * Japanese: 不法の, 非合法の
 * Kurdish:, , memnûh, yasax, qaçax, derqanûn
 * Macedonian:, , противзаконски, нелегален, илегален
 * Romanian:, nelegal
 * Russian: незаконный, нелегальный
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: yasa dışı


 * Catalan:
 * Greek:, απαγορευμένος
 * Kurdish:, memnûh
 * Macedonian: недозволен, неправилен


 * Mandarin:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, неверный

Noun

 * Greek: λαθρομετανάστης
 * Russian: нелегал


 * Swahili:

Adjective

 * 1) illegal

Synonyms

 * strafbar, ungesetzlich