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 and divides as non-le-gal 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 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.