- lawless
- adj1. rebellious, mutinous, insurrectionary, insurgent, seditious, seditionary, revo'utionary, secessionist, riotous, terrorist; defiant, unsubmissive, insubordinate, disobedient, wayward; ungovernable, intractable, uncontrollable, unconformable, noncom-pliant; refractory, recalcitrant, contumacious; nonconformist, unconventional, nonconforming, eccentric, deviatory, deviative, divergent.2. unbridled, unrestrained, unchecked, ungoverned; chaotic, rampageous, unruly, lax, loose, disorderly, disorganized; nihilistic, anarchic, anarchical, anarchistic; intemperate, immoderate, incontinent, self-indulgent; dissipated, licentious, wanton; wild, rampant.3. illegal, unlawful, illicit, law-breaking; criminal, felonious, larcenous, malfeasant, misfeasant, trans-gressive, offending, violating, violational, violative.4. dishonest, unprincipled, unscrupulous, Inf. crooked, villainous, piratical; nefarious, wicked, iniquitous, flagitious; vile, foul, corrupt, venal, miscreant; reprobate, miscreant, depraved, degenerate, dissolute; knavish, roguish, rascally, scampish.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.