Entry Word: legal

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 permitted by law <drinking is only legal if you are 21 years old>

Synonyms lawful, legitimate

Related Words allowable, authorized, noncriminal, permissible; justifiable, warrantable; regulation, statutory; good, innocent, proper, right

Near Antonyms bad, corrupt, evil, immoral, iniquitous, reprobate, sinful, wicked, wrong; banned, criminal, forbidden, guilty, outlawed, prohibited, unauthorized, unjust; nonconstitutional, unconstitutional

Antonyms illegal, illegitimate, illicit, unlawful, wrongful

2 following or according to the rules <the referee declared it a legal play> — see fair 3