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| Main Entry: | lawless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | reckless, ungoverned |
| Synonyms: | bad, barbarous, chaotic, contumacious, criminal, despotic, disobedient, disordered, disorderly, evil, fierce, heterodox, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous, nihilistic, noncompliant, nonconformist, rebellious, revolutionary, riotous, savage, seditious, tempestuous, traitorous, turbulent, uncivilized, uncultivated, unorthodox, unrestrained, unruly, untamed, violent, warlike, wild, anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic, infringing, piratical, recusant, terrorizing, tyrannous, unpeaceful |
| Antonyms: | governed, lawful, legal, legitimate, licit, proper, rightful, valid |
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| Main Entry: | chaotic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | utterly confused |
| Synonyms: | deranged, disordered, disorganized, every which way*, harum-scarum*, helter-skelter*, lawless, purposeless, riotous, topsy-turvy*, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, uncontrolled, anarchic, rampageous |
| Antonyms: | calm, normal, ordered, organized, quiet, systematic, harmonized |
* = 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 |
| Notes: | a form of conduct will be illicit and a type of practice will be illegal |
| 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: | riotous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chaotic, wild |
| Synonyms: | deranged, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, helter-skelter*, lawless, mutinous, out of control, rebellious, rowdy, tumultuous, turbid, turbulent, uncontrolled, unruly, violent, anarchic, insurrectionary, rampageous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rowdy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | boisterous, noisy |
| Synonyms: | disorderly, lawless, loud, loudmouthed, loutish, mischievous, obstreperous, rambunctious, raucous, rebellious, rough, roughhouse, rude, turbulent, unruly, uproarious, wild |
| Antonyms: | calm, moderate, quiet, restrained |
| Main Entry: | tumultous/tumultuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused; in an uproar |
| Synonyms: | agitated, boisterous, clamorous, disorderly, disturbed, excited, fierce, hectic, irregular, lawless, noisy, obstreperous, passionate, raging, rambunctious, raucous, restless, riotous, rowdy, stormy, turbulent, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, vociferous, wild, rowdydowdy, rumbunctious, termagant |
| Antonyms: | calm, orderly, peaceful |
| 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: | uncontrollable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | wild; carried away |
| Synonyms: | beside oneself, disorderly, excited, fractious, frantic, furious, headstrong, indomitable, insurgent, intractable, irrepressible, irresistible, lawless, mad, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, strong, stubborn, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, violent, freaked, indocile, insuppressible, like a loose cannon, uncontainable, undisciplinable, unrestrainable |
| Antonyms: | manageable, mild, moderate, controllable, controlled |
| 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: | unmanageable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unruly, wild |
| Synonyms: | awkward, berserk, chaotic, crazy, disobedient, disorderly, hysterical, lawless, madcap, nuts, out of control, outrageous, riotous, rowdy, turbulent, unbridled, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, undisciplined, ungovernable, unrestrained, violent |
| Main Entry: | unruly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disobedient |
| Synonyms: | assertive, bawdy, disorderly, drunken, forward, fractious, headstrong, heedless, impervious, impetuous, imprudent, impulsive, incorrigible, inexorable, insubordinate, intemperate, intractable, lawless, mean, mutinous, obstreperous, opinionated, ornery, out of control, perverse, quarrelsome, rash, rebellious, recalcitrant, reckless, refractory, restive, riotous, rowdy, turbulent, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unmanageable, unyielding, violent, wayward, wild, willful, out of line |
| Antonyms: | compliant, obedient, yielding |
| Main Entry: | villainous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | criminal |
| Synonyms: | atrocious, bad, corrupt, crooked, cruel, culpable, deplorable, depraved, diabolical, dirty, evil, felonious, hateful, ignoble, illegal, illicit, immoral, iniquitous, knavish, lawless, low, mean, nefarious, peccant, reprehensible, scandalous, shady*, sinful, unlawful, vile, wicked |
* = 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: | tumultuous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | confused |
| Synonyms: | agitated, boisterous, clamorous, disorderly, disturbed, excited, fierce, hectic, irregular, lawless, noisy, obstreperous, passionate, raging, rambunctious, raucous, restless, riotous, rowdy, stormy, turbulent, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, vociferous, wild, rowdydowdy, rumbustious, termagant |
| Antonyms: | calm, orderly, peaceful |
| Main Entry: | nihilistic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | insurgent |
| Synonyms: | lawless, rebellious, revolutionary, unruly, anarchic |
| Main Entry: | radical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deviating by extremes |
| Synonyms: | advanced, complete, entire, excessive, extremist, fanatical, far-out*, iconoclastic, immoderate, insubordinate, insurgent, intransigent, lawless, militant, mutinous, nihilistic, progressive, rabid, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, revolutionary, riotous, seditious, severe, sweeping, thorough, ultra, uncompromising, violent, way out, anarchistic, freethinking, insurrectionary, leftist, recusant, ultraist |
| Antonyms: | conservative, moderate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | turbulent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rebellious, unmanageable |
| Synonyms: | agitated, angry, bitter, boisterous, chaotic, demonstrative, destructive, disorderly, excited, fierce, fiery, insubordinate, lawless, mutinous, obstreperous, passionate, perturbed, quarrelsome, rabid, rambunctious, rampant, raucous, refractory, riotous, rough, roughhouse, rowdy, rude, seditious, shaking, stern, tumultous/tumultuous, unbridled, uncontrolled, undisciplined, ungovernable, unruly, untamed, uproarious, vehement, violent, vociferous, wild, anarchic, foaming, storming, termagant |
| Antonyms: | calm, manageable, moderate, obedient, stable |
| Main Entry: | wild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disorderly, rowdy |
| Synonyms: | avid, berserk, boisterous, chaotic, crazed, crazy, eager, enthusiastic, extravagant, flighty, foolhardy, foolish, giddy, hysterical, impetuous, impracticable, imprudent, incautious, irrational, lawless, licentious, mad, madcap, noisy, nuts, outrageous, preposterous, profligate, rabid, rash, raving, reckless, riotous, rough, turbulent, unbridled, uncontrolled, undisciplined, unfettered, ungovernable, unmanageable, unrestrained, unruly, uproarious, violent, wayward, self-willed |
| Antonyms: | manageable, orderly, behaved, controllable |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Main Entry: | aberration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
aberrant, abnormal, abnormous, absonant, ambagious, amorphous, amphibious, androgynal, androgynous, anomalistic, anomalous, arbitrary, azygous, circuitous, crablike, curious, denaturalized, desultory, deviating, devious, diffluent, discursive, eccentric, egregious, epicene, errabund, errant, erratic, exceptional, exclusive, excursive, exotic, extraordinary, fantastic, farblondzhet, grotesque, heteroclite, heterogeneous, hybrid, hypotypic, indirect, informal, irregular, lawless, misplaced, mongrel, monstrous, non-union, nondescript, noteworthy, odd, original, outlandish, peculiar, preternatural, quaint, qualified, queer, rambling, rare, remarkable, singular, strange, stray, unaccountable, unaccustomed, uncommon, unconformable, unconventional, uncustomary, undescribed, undirected, unexampled, unusual, unwonted, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wonderful, zigzag
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