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| Main Entry: | illegitimate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not legal |
| Synonyms: | contraband, illegal, illicit, improper, invalid, misbegotten, spurious, unauthorized, unconstitutional, unlawful, wicked, wrong, supposititious, unsanctioned |
| Notes: | literally, illegitimate is 'not lawful' and illicit is 'not allowed' |
| Antonyms: | authorized, blessed, ethical, justifiable, legal, legitimate, moral, sanctioned, warranted |
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| Main Entry: | clandestine |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | secret, sly |
| Synonyms: | artful, cloak-and-dagger, closet, concealed, covert, foxy, fraudulent, furtive, hidden, hush-hush*, illegitimate, illicit, private, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious, under wraps*, undercover, underground, underhand, in holes and corners, on the Q. T., on the quiet, under-the-counter |
| Antonyms: | aboveboard, forthright, open, truthful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | criminal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lawless, felonious |
| Synonyms: | bent, caught, corrupt, crooked, culpable, deplorable, dirty, heavy, hung up*, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, immoral, iniquitous, nefarious, off base*, peccant, racket, scandalous, senseless, shady*, smoking gun*, unlawful, vicious, villainous, wicked, wildcat*, wrong, indictable, out of line, unrighteous |
| Antonyms: | correct, lawful, legal, moral, right, righteous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illegal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | against the law |
| Synonyms: | banned, bootleg*, contraband, criminal, crooked, felonious, forbidden, heavy*, hot*, illegitimate, illicit, irregular, lawless, prohibited, racket, shady, sub rosa, taboo, unauthorized, unconstitutional, unlawful, unofficial, unwarranted, verboten, wildcat*, wrongful, actionable, black-market, extralegal, interdicted, not approved, not legal, outlawed, outside the law, proscribed, prosecutable, smuggled, under the table, unlicensed, unwarrantable, violating |
| Antonyms: | authorized, ethical, good, lawful, legal, legitimate, moral, permissible, right, allowed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | illicit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not legal; forbidden |
| Synonyms: | adulterous, bootleg*, clandestine, contraband, criminal, crooked, dirty*, felonious, furtive, guilty, heavy*, illegal, illegitimate, immoral, improper, lawless, prohibited, racket, unauthorized, unlawful, wrong, wrongful, black-market, contrary to law, in violation of law, out of line, unlicensed |
| Antonyms: | blessed, good, legal, legitimate, licit, moral, noble, proper, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | spurious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit, fake |
| Synonyms: | affected, apocryphal, artificial, assumed, bastard*, bent, bogus, bum, contrived, deceitful, deceptive, dummy*, ersatz, false, feigned, forged, framed, illegitimate, imitation, make-believe, mock, phony, pirate, pretend, pretended, pseudo*, sham*, simulated, specious, substitute, unreal, faked, put-on, unauthentic, ungenuine |
| Antonyms: | authentic, genuine, real, true |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unauthorized |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not sanctioned, permitted |
| Synonyms: | crooked*, dirty*, illegal, illegitimate, off base*, out of bounds, shady*, unconstitutional, unjustified, unlawful, unofficial, unwarranted, wildcat*, wrongful, no-no, out of line, over the line, pirated, unapproved, under the table, unsanctioned |
| Antonyms: | allowable, authorized, official, permitted |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unconstitutional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | illegal |
| Synonyms: | against the law, banned, criminal, felonious, forbidden, illegitimate, illicit, lawless, prohibited, unauthorized, unlawful, wrongful, not legal, outlawed, prosecutable, violating |
| Main Entry: | unlawful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | against the law |
| Synonyms: | banned, bootleg*, criminal, flagitious, forbidden, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, improper, iniquitous, lawless, nefarious, prohibited, taboo, unauthorized, wrongful, actionable, outlawed, under-the-counter, unlicensed |
| Antonyms: | authorized, lawful, legal, right |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | wrongful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | evil, illegal |
| Synonyms: | blameworthy, criminal, dishonest, dishonorable, felonious, illegitimate, illicit, immoral, improper, lawless, reprehensible, unethical, unfair, unjust, unlawful, wicked |
| Antonyms: | ethical, fair, good, just, legal, rightful |
| Main Entry: | unreasonable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extravagant; beyond normal limits |
| Synonyms: | arbitrary, dear, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extreme, far-out*, illegitimate, immoderate, improper, inordinate, intemperate, out of bounds, peremptory, posh, senseless, steep*, stiff*, too much, uncalled-for*, unconscionable, undue, unfair, unjust, unjustifiable, unlawful, unwarranted, way out, wrongful, absonant, costing an arm and a leg, overkill*, overmuch, pricey, too great, too-too, unrightful, unwarrantable, up to here |
| Antonyms: | cheap, economical, low, plain, reasonable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | deceit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
ad captandum, adulterated, artificial, babyshed, barefaced, bastard, bogus, brummagem, calophantic, catchpenny, catchy, colorable, contraband, counterfeit, covinous, cunning, deceitful, deceived, deceiving, deceptious, deceptive, delusive, delusory, devious, disguised, double-dealing, elusive, ersatz, factitious, fair-weather, faithless, feigned, fraudulent, fucatory, ill-gotten, illegitimate, illicit, illusive, illusory, insidious, make-believe, meretricious, mock, parlous, pawky, pinchbeck, predatory, prestigiatory, prestigious, pretended, pseudo, rotten at the core, scamped, sham, simulated, so-called, sophisticated, spurious, supposititious, surreptitious, tinsel, tricky, trumped-up, two-faced, unconscionable, unscrupulous, unsound, unsupported by evidence, untrue, wildcat
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| Main Entry: | fertility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
life, barren, congenital, contraceptive, expecting, fecund, feracious, fertile, frugiferous, fruit, fruitive, generative, gravid, illegitimate, in utero, in vitro, legitimate, misbegotten, multiparous, natal, omnific, parturient, pregnant, prenatal, pro, pro, procreative, productive, profitable, propagable, spermatic, stillborn, teemful, teeming, uberous, unfertile, unpregnant, viparious
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| Main Entry: | lawlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
actionable, arbitrary, contraband, despotic, despotical, exlegal, exlex, extrajudicial, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, informal, infract, injudicial, irresponsible, lawless, not allowed, nothous, null and void, prohibited, spurious, summary, unaccountable, unallowed, unanswerable, unauthorized, unchartered, unconstitutional, undue, unlawful, unofficial, unsanctioned, unwarrantable, unwarranted, usurped, violating
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