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From extra- +‎ legal.

extralegal (not comparable)

  1. Occurring outside the law; not governed by law; lawless.

    • 2030 October 7, Leslie Feinberg, “Can a homosexual be a member of the Communist Party?”, in Workers World‎[1]:

      Extra-legal raids in Moscow and Leningrad in which 130 males were arrested in late summer 1933 were the harbinger of the recriminalization of male homosexuality later that year.

extralegal (strong nominative masculine singular extralegaler, not comparable)

  1. extralegal

Positive forms of extralegal (uncomparable)

Borrowed from French extralégal.

extralegal m or n (feminine singular extralegală, masculine plural extralegali, feminine and neuter plural extralegale)

  1. extralegal
  • IPA(key): /eɡstɾaleˈɡal/ [eɣ̞s.t̪ɾa.leˈɣ̞al]
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: ex‧tra‧le‧gal

extralegal m or f (masculine and feminine plural extralegales)

  1. extralegal