Synonyms and Antonyms for law
1. law (n.)
the collection of rules imposed by authority
- case law
- law of the land
- martial law
- Mosaic law
- tax law
- shariah law
- jurisprudence
- sharia
- administrative law
- common law
- securities law
- civil law
- ecclesiastical law
- international law
- aggregation
- collection
- military law
- mercantile law
- statutory law
- law merchant
- shariah
- accumulation
- law of nations
- Law of Moses
- Islamic law
- canon law
- sharia law
- commercial law
- precedent
- assemblage
2. law (n.)
legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
- official document
- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act
- anti-racketeering law
- RICO Act
- organic law
- poor law
- jurisprudence
- gag law
- instrument
- antitrust law
- antitrust legislation
- blue sky law
- anti-drug law
- public law
- blue law
- homestead law
- prohibition
- legal instrument
- constitution
- Riot Act
- statute of limitations
- fundamental law
- RICO
- legal document
3. law (n.)
a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
4. law (n.)
a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
- Newton's law of gravitation
- periodic law
- concept
- law of gravitation
- law of mass action
- law of Archimedes
- Hooke's law
- Charles's law
- Planck's law
- Newton's law of motion
- Planck's radiation law
- Dalton's law of partial pressures
- Newton's law
- Fechner's law
- Stevens' law
- law of effect
- Kepler's law
- Mariotte's law
- Hubble law
- law of diminishing returns
- Henry's law
- Hubble's law
- law of chemical equilibrium
- construct
- Fermi-Dirac statistics
- law of constant proportion
- law of definite proportions
- law of equivalent proportions
- distribution law
- Avogadro's law
- Stevens' power law
- law of large numbers
- Kepler's law of planetary motion
- Weber-Fechner law
- principle
- Dalton's law
- Gay-Lussac's law
- theory
- law of reciprocal proportions
- Coulomb's Law
- Pascal's law
- Pauli exclusion principle
- law of partial pressures
- exclusion principle
- law of thermodynamics
- Ohm's law
- equilibrium law
- law of nature
- law of multiple proportions
- Bernoulli's law
- law of averages
- all-or-none law
- Weber's law
- law of motion
- Bose-Einstein statistics
- law of volumes
- conception
- Benford's law
- Pascal's law of fluid pressures
- Mendel's law
- rule
- Avogadro's hypothesis
- Kirchhoff's laws
- Archimedes' principle
- Mendeleev's law
- Boyle's law
- power law
- principle of relativity
5. law (n.)
the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
6. law (n.)
the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
7. law (n.)
the force of policemen and officers
- secret police
- force
- posse comitatus
- police officer
- Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- constabulary
- law enforcement agency
- police
- gendarmery
- personnel
- posse
- Mutawa'een
- police force
- Mounties
- European Law Enforcement Organisation
- Mutawa
- RCMP
- Schutzstaffel
- SS
- policeman
- Europol
- officer
- gendarmerie
- Scotland Yard
- New Scotland Yard
8. law-breaking (n.)
(criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act
- perpetration
- violation
- infraction
- misdemeanor
- lese majesty
- mayhem
- offense
- barratry
- capital offense
- evildoing
- thuggery
- statutory offense
- vice crime
- commission
- war crime
- misdemeanour
- high treason
- crime
- forgery
- attack
- victimless crime
- felony
- committal
- infringement
- offence
- criminal offense
- Tazir crime
- statutory offence
- Had crime
- fraud
- attempt
- regulatory offence
- transgression
- treason
- cybercrime
- hijack
- criminal offence
- highjack
- regulatory offense
9. brother-in-law (n.)
a brother by marriage
10. sister-in-law (n.)
the sister of your spouse
