lawless

Other forms of lawless

comparative

lawlesser·

superlative

lawlessest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lawless

What does lawless mean?

lawless means "without law or control". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lawless?

lawless has 2 syllables: law-less. The stress falls on "law". In IPA it is /ˈlɔləs/.

What is another word for lawless?

Close synonyms include anarchic, anarchical, wide-open, outlaw. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lawless a common word?

lawless is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.