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Adjective legal has 5 senses

legal - established by or founded upon law or official or accepted rules
Antonyms: illegal, amerciable, banned, prohibited, bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled, criminal, felonious, dirty, ill-gotten, embezzled, misappropriated, extrajudicial, extralegal, nonlegal, hot, illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful, ineligible, misbranded, mislabeled, under-the-counter, unratified, penal, punishable
legal - of or relating to jurisprudence; "legal loophole"
legal, sound - having legal efficacy or force; "a sound title to the property"
Antonym: invalid (indirect, via valid)
legal - relating to or characteristic of the profession of law; "the legal profession"
legal - allowed by official rules; "a legal pass receiver"
Antonym: ineligible (indirect, via eligible)