Legal

//ˈliː.ɡəl//

Word Type

Adjective
Adjective
Noun
Proper Noun

The word "legal" can be used as adjective, adjective, noun and proper noun.

Word Relationships

Coordinate Terms

equitable

Derived Terms

antilegal chief legal officer counterlegal cyberlegal dentolegal extralegal hyperlegal intralegal juridico-legal lagger legal action legal advice legal age legal agreement legal aid legal assistant legal beagle legal blindness legal cap legal capacity legal certainty legal chemistry legal code legal consequence legal cynicism legal doublet legal duty legal eagle legal effect legal entity legal fiction legal gap legal gender legal height legal heir legal high legal hold legal holiday legal instrument legal interest legal name legal notice legal pad legal person legal positivism legal professional privilege legal recourse legal relationship legal remedy legal representative legal separation legal sex legal studies legal system legal tender legal vacuum legal void legal-ese legal-size legalese legalise legalism legalist legalistic legalitarian legality legalize legally legalness legalspeak legaltech medicolegal metalegal nonlegal paralegal politicolegal postlegal prelegal preterlegal pseudolegal psycholegal quasilegal semilegal sociolegal sociopoliticolegal street-legal sublegal supralegal ultralegal

Etymologically Related To

leal

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