nonlegal

1. 1.

   not regulated or sanctioned by law

   “there were only extralegal recourses for their grievances”

   Synonymsextralegal

   Similarillegal

Questions about nonlegal

What does nonlegal mean?

nonlegal means "not regulated or sanctioned by law".

How many syllables are in nonlegal?

nonlegal has 3 syllables: non-le-gal. The stress falls on "non".

What is another word for nonlegal?

Close synonyms include extralegal. 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 nonlegal a common word?

nonlegal 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.