Dictionary Entry
legal
legal is a 5-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law; as, a legal obligation; a legal standard or test; a legal procedure; a legal claim; a legal trade; anything is legal which the laws do not forbid.
- 2adjective
According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace; or resting on works for salvation.
- 3adjective
According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses.
- 4adjective
Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity; as, legal estate; legal assets.
- 5adjective
allowed by official rules
"a legal pass receiver"
- 6adjective
established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
- 7adjective
having legal efficacy or force
"a sound title to the property"
- 8adjective
of or relating to jurisprudence
"legal loophole"
- 9adjective
relating to or characteristic of the profession of law
"the legal profession"
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