say it: OWT-lawd
outlawed is an adjective meaning "contrary to or forbidden by law". It is pronounced /ˈaʊtˌlɔd/ — OWT-lawd. It carries one recorded sense.
contrary to or forbidden by law
“an illegitimate seizure of power”
“illicit trade”
“an outlaw strike”
“unlawful measures”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for outlawed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.