lawful
113 synonyms found
- actionable
- admissible
- allowable
- allowed
- applicable
- authentic
- authoritative
- authorized
- balanced
- binding
- bona fide
- candid
- card-carrying
- cogent
- competent
- consistent
- constitutional
- de jure
- defensible
- deserved
- dinkum
- due
- even
- evenhanded
- fair and square
- following the letter
- honest
- honest-to-God
- inartificial
- judicial
- juridical
- just
- justiciable
- justifiable
- justified
- kosher
- lawmaking
- legal
- legislative
- legit
- legitimate
- legitimized
- licit
- lifelike
- literal
- logical
- meet
- meet and right
- merited
- natural
- naturalistic
- original
- permissible
- permitted
- proper
- pure
- realistic
- right
- right and proper
- rightful
- sanctionable
- sanctioned
- self-consistent
- simon-pure
- square
- statutory
- sterling
- substantial
- sufficient
- sure-enough
- true to life
- true to nature
- true to reality
- unadulterated
- unaffected
- unassumed
- unassuming
- uncolored
- unconcocted
- uncopied
- uncounterfeited
- undisguised
- undisguising
- undistorted
- unexaggerated
- unfabricated
- unfanciful
- unfeigned
- unfeigning
- unfictitious
- unflattering
- unimagined
- unimitated
- uninvented
- unpretended
- unpretending
- unqualified
- unromantic
- unsimulated
- unspecious
- unsynthetic
- unvarnished
- valid
- verbal
- verbatim
- veridical
- verisimilar
- warrantable
- warranted
- well-founded
- well-grounded
- within the law
- word-for-word
Definition
(adj) :
conforming to, permitted by, or recognised by law or rules