Etymology
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From Middle English unlawful; equivalent to un- + lawful.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
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unlawful (comparative more unlawful, superlative most unlawful)
- (law) Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).
He was charged with unlawful use of a car.
2022 September 26, “Putin grants Russian citizenship to U.S. whistleblower Snowden”, in Mark Trevelyan, editor, Reuters[1], archived from the original on 26 September 2022, Europe:That year a U.S. appeals court found the program Snowden had exposed was unlawful and that the U.S. intelligence leaders who publicly defended it were not telling the truth.
Derived terms
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Translations
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prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law)
- Afrikaans: onwettig
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: незаконен (bg) (nezakonen)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 非法的 (fēifǎ de), 違法的／违法的 (wéifǎ de), 不合法的 (bùhéfǎ de)
- Crimean Tatar: qanunsız
- Danish: ulovlig (da), lovstridig, illegal (da)
- Dutch: verboden (nl), illegaal (nl), onwettig (nl), wederrechtelijk (nl)
- Finnish: laiton (fi), lainvastainen (fi)
- French: illégal (fr)
- Galician: ilegal
- Georgian: არაკანონიერი (araḳanonieri), კანონსაწინააღმდეგო (ḳanonsac̣inaaɣmdego), უკანონო (uḳanono)
- German: gesetzeswidrig (de), gesetzwidrig (de), ungesetzlich (de), illegal (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: παράνομος (paránomos)
- Hungarian: jogsértő (hu), jogellenes (hu), jogtalan (hu), jogszabályellenes, törvénysértő (hu), törvényellenes (hu), törvénytelen (hu), illegális (hu), tiltott (hu), törvénybe ütköző, jogszerűtlen (hu)
- Irish: aindílis, neamhdhleathach, neamhdhlisteanach
- Latin: illicitus
- Norwegian: rettsstridig
- Bokmål: ulovlig (no)
- Nynorsk: ulovleg
- Polish: nielegalny (pl) m, niedozwolony (pl) m, bezprawny (pl) m
- Russian: незако́нный (ru) (nezakónnyj), нелега́льный (ru) (nelegálʹnyj), неправоме́рный (ru) (nepravomérnyj)
- Spanish: ilegal (es)
- Swedish: olaglig (sv)
- Welsh: anghyfreithiol (cy)
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