legalise

Other forms of legalise

past tense

legalised·

present participle

legalising·

third person

legalises·

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 legalise

What does legalise mean?

legalise means "make legal".

How many syllables are in legalise?

legalise has 3 syllables: le-ga-lise. The stress falls on "le".

What is another word for legalise?

Close synonyms include legalize, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise. 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.

What is the opposite of legalise?

The recorded antonyms are outlaw.

Is legalise a common word?

legalise 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.