Over the last decade, Estonia has reported that heroin has largely been replaced by fentanyl on the illicit market.
Source: tatoeba (2352892)
Illicit
//ɪˈlɪsɪt//
Synonyms for "illicit" (101 found)
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Closest matches (21)
Strong matches (30)
Adjective(10 words)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (50)
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Antonyms
1 entriesSynonyms
6 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
3 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
4 entriessimilar
7 entriesTranslations
45 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- забранен adj (lacking licitness)
- незаконен adj (unlawful)
Catalan
2 entries- il·lícit adj (lacking licitness)
- il·lícit adj (unlawful)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 不合法的 adj (unlawful)
- 非法的 adj (unlawful)
Czech
4 entries- nedovolený adj (lacking licitness)
- neoprávněný adj (unlawful)
- nepřijatelný adj (breaking social norms)
- nezákonný adj (lacking licitness)
Dutch
1 entries- onwettig adj (unlawful)
Finnish
4 entries- laiton adj (breaking social norms)
- laiton adj (unlawful)
- luvaton adj (lacking licitness)
- luvaton adj (breaking social norms)
French
3 entries- illicite adj (lacking licitness)
- illicite adj (breaking social norms)
- illicite adj (unlawful)
German
4 entries- rechtswidrig adj (unlawful)
- unerlaubt adj (breaking social norms)
- unzulässig adj (breaking social norms)
- verboten adj (breaking social norms)
Greek
4 entries- έκνομος adj (lacking licitness)
- έκνομος adj (unlawful)
- αθέμιτος adj (breaking social norms)
- παράνομος adj (lacking licitness)
Hindi
2 entries- अवैध adj (lacking licitness)
- अवैध adj (unlawful)
Kazakh
1 entries- заңсыз adj (unlawful)
Latin
3 entries- illicitus adj (lacking licitness)
- illicitus adj (breaking social norms)
- illicitus adj (unlawful)
Polish
1 entries- niedozwolony adj (lacking licitness)
Portuguese
3 entries- ilícito adj (lacking licitness)
- ilícito adj (breaking social norms)
- ilícito adj (unlawful)
Russian
3 entries- недозволенный adj (lacking licitness)
- незако́нный adj (unlawful)
- неположенный adj (breaking social norms)
Spanish
2 entries- ilícito adj (lacking licitness)
- ilícito adj (unlawful)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
No circumstance, no purpose, no law whatsoever can ever make licit an act which is intrinsically illicit.
Source: tatoeba (2654442)
He uses bitcoins to purchase illicit drugs.
Source: tatoeba (3791485)
That’s why we’ve pushed for transparency and cooperation in rooting out corruption, and tracking illicit dollars, because markets create more jobs when they're fueled by hard work, and not the capacity to extort a bribe.
Source: tatoeba (5774032)
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