extrajudicial

1. 1.

   beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted

   “an extrajudicial penalty”

   Similarillegal

Questions about extrajudicial

What does extrajudicial mean?

extrajudicial means "beyond the usual course of legal proceedings; legally unwarranted".

How many syllables are in extrajudicial?

extrajudicial has 6 syllables and divides as ex-tra-ju-di-ci-al under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is extrajudicial a common word?

extrajudicial is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.