outlawed
Put beyond legality
Outlawed means banned or prohibited by law or authority.
An outlawed substance is illegal to possess or sell.
Outlawed practices have been officially forbidden.
Historically, to be outlawed was to be declared outside the protection of the law—an outlaw could be killed or robbed without legal consequence.
Now the term usually just means forbidden: The treaty outlawed chemical weapons.
Officially not permitted
contraband · taboo · verboten · interdicted · proscribed · barred · disallowed · vetoed
Forced to leave permanently
- expelledOfficially removed or banished
- deportedOfficially expelled abroad
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
- exiledForced from one's country
displaced · refugee · expatriate · castaway · persona non grata · extradited · stateless · deportee
One fleeing authorities
- felonSerious crime perpetrator
- convictJailed offender after trial
- offenderOne who breaks rules
- banditArmed roadside thief
desperado · renegade · gangster · mobster · smuggler · bootlegger · highwayman · pirate
Not allowed
- unacceptableNot meeting required standards
- disapprovedExpressed negative judgment
- improperLacking in propriety
- unseemlyInappropriate for the occasion
intolerable · transgressive · deviant · heretical · sacrilegious · blasphemous · profane · stigmatized
Opposer of established systems
- insurgentOne who revolts
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
subversive · underground · mutineer · insurrectionist · partisan · separatist · militant · agitator
prohibited
Officially not permitted
unlawful · contraband · taboo · verboten · interdicted · proscribed · barred · disallowed · vetoed · censored
banished
Forced to leave permanently
- expelledOfficially removed or banished
- deportedOfficially expelled abroad
- ostracizedExcluded from a group
exiled · displaced · refugee · expatriate · castaway · persona non grata · extradited · stateless · deportee · fugitive
fugitive
One fleeing authorities
bandit · desperado · renegade · gangster · mobster · smuggler · bootlegger · highwayman · pirate · poacher
forbidden
Not allowed
- unacceptableNot meeting required standards
- disapprovedExpressed negative judgment
- improperLacking in propriety
unseemly · intolerable · transgressive · deviant · heretical · sacrilegious · blasphemous · profane · stigmatized · shameful
dissident
Opposer of established systems
- insurgentOne who revolts
- revolutionarySeeking fundamental systemic change
- guerrillaIrregular armed fighter
resistance · subversive · underground · mutineer · insurrectionist · partisan · separatist · militant · agitator · radical
- No-Gobanned, forbidden, off-limits, illegal, prohibited
- Forbiddenforbidden, prohibited, banned, not allowed, off-limits
- outcastsoutcast, pariah, pariahs, outcasts, castaway
- prohibitionsban, forbid, prohibition, forbidden, prohibit
- legal statusesmarried, single, divorced, citizen, widowed
- crimesarson, burglary, robbery, kidnapping, vandalism
outlawedaccepted
Formally agreed to
proper · embraced · sanctioned · normalized · endorsed
- outlaw biker
- outlaw band
- legendary outlawMythologized criminal figure
- old west outlaw
- outlaw gangCriminal group evading law
- outlaw countryRebellious country music subgenre