Lawful

Adjective

 * 1) Conforming to, permitted by, or recognised by law or rules.

Synonyms

 * just
 * legitimate
 * licit
 * permissible

Antonyms

 * unlawful

Derived terms

 * lawfully

Adverbs for Lawful
definitely; expressly; explicitly; officially; ordinarily; prescriptively; properly; duly; acceptably; admissibly; equitably; constitutionally; downright; completely; fundamentally; authentically; singularly; emphatically; unquestionably; unimpeachably; currently; altogether.

Thesaurus
actionable, admissible, allowable, allowed, applicable, authentic, authoritative, authorized, balanced, binding, bona fide, candid, card-carrying, cogent, competent, consistent, constitutional, de jure, defensible, deserved, dinkum, due, equitable, even, evenhanded, fair, fair and square, fit, following the letter, genuine, good, honest, honest-to-God, inartificial, judicial, juridical, just, justiciable, justifiable, justified, kosher, lawmaking, legal, legislative, legit, legitimate, legitimized, level, licit, lifelike, literal, logical, meet, meet and right, merited, natural, naturalistic, original, permissible, permitted, proper, pure, real, realistic, right, right and proper, rightful, sanctionable, sanctioned, self-consistent, simon-pure, simple, sincere, solid, sound, square, statutory, sterling, substantial, sufficient, sure-enough, true to life, true to nature, true to reality, unadulterated, unaffected, unassumed, unassuming, uncolored, unconcocted, uncopied, uncounterfeited, undisguised, undisguising, undistorted, unexaggerated, unfabricated, unfanciful, unfeigned, unfeigning, unfictitious, unflattering, unimagined, unimitated, uninvented, unpretended, unpretending, unqualified, unromantic, unsimulated, unspecious, unsynthetic, unvarnished, valid, verbal, verbatim, veridical, verisimilar, warrantable, warranted, weighty, well-founded, well-grounded, within the law, word-for-word

Etymology
From laweful:, equivalent to, conflated with  leful:, leeful:, leveful:. See also.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: gesetzlich, legal, rechtsmäßig


 * Hungarian:, törvényszerű
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish: laglig, berättigad, rättmätig
 * Turkish: