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 and divides as le-ga-lise 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.

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.