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adjective
- 1. not governed by or obedient to laws; characterized by a lack of civic order: "a lawless region where peace never really took hold" Similar Opposite
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Learn the meaning of lawless, an adjective that describes something not based on or regulated by law, or not restrained or controlled by law. See synonyms, examples, word history, and related articles.
Lawless means not controlled by laws, or illegal. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts with sentences from the Cambridge English Corpus and translations in other languages.
Lawless definition: contrary to or without regard for the law. See examples of LAWLESS used in a sentence.
Lawless means not controlled by laws, or illegal. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, see examples from news sources and find translations in other languages.
Lawless means without law, disobedient to the law, or contrary to the law. It can describe actions, behaviour, places, or times. See synonyms, pronunciation, and usage examples from various sources.
Lawless means (of a country or an area) where laws do not exist or are not obeyed, or (of people or their actions) without respect for the law. See the pronunciation, synonyms, and usage notes of lawless in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.
To be lawless is to be without law, which stems from the Old English lagu, "law or rule." Definitions of lawless. adjective. without law or control. synonyms: anarchic, anarchical. uncontrolled. not being under control; out of control. adjective. lax in enforcing laws.
