1. Not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention
   - improper, unconventional 
2. Contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law
   "unlawful measures"; "unlawful money"; "unlawful hunters" 
3. Not morally right or permissible
   "unlawful love" 
4. Having no legally established claim
   - wrongful 
5. Contrary to or forbidden by law
   "unlawful measures"
   - illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed

See also: bent [Brit], corrupt, crooked, illegal, illegitimate, illicit, irregular, lawfulness, lawless, outlaw, unlawfully, unlawfulness, wide-open, wrongful

Antonym: lawful

Encyclopedia: Unlawful

• genus Lates
• genus Lathyrus
• genus Latimeria
• genus Latrodectus
• genus Laurus
• in height
• in her own right
• in her right mind
• in hiding
• in high spirits
• in his own right
• in his right mind
• in its own right
• in kind
• in large quantities
• in league
• in lieu
• in line
• in loco parentis
• in love
• in low spirits
• in media res
• in medias res
• in memoriam
• in name