English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] From Middle English unlawful un- lawful
Pronunciation [ edit ] Adjective [ edit ] unlawful (comparative more unlawfulsuperlative 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] 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. Translations [ edit ] prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law)
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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 jogellenes (hu) , jogtalan (hu) , jogszabályellenes törvénysértő törvényellenes (hu) , törvénytelen (hu) , illegális (hu) , tiltott (hu) , törvénybe ütköző jogszerűtlen
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)