Synonyms for law
Another word for law is jurisprudence, natural law or law of nature. Below are 8 synonyms and 30 related words across 7 senses.
Also searched as: lawed, lawing, laws.
1. noun: the collection of rules imposed by authority
- jurisprudence
2. noun: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
3. noun: a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
- natural law
4. noun: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature
- law of nature
5. noun: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do
- legal philosophy
- jurisprudence
6. noun: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system
- practice of law
7. noun: the force of policemen and officers
- police synonyms
- police force
- constabulary
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- case law
- international law
- law of the land
- common law
- military law
- tax law
- collection synonyms
- civil law
- commercial law
- law of nations
- administrative law
- securities law
- canon law
- law merchant
- martial law
- public law
- blue law
- poor law
- anti-drug law
- constitution synonyms
- blue sky law
- official document
- legal document
- organic law
- fundamental law
- instrument synonyms
- legal instrument
- prohibition synonyms
- statute of limitations
- gag law
Law in word games
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- 3
- Scrabble
- 6
- Words With Friends
- 7
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Questions people ask
What is another word for law?
You can say jurisprudence, natural law, law of nature, legal philosophy or practice of law instead of law. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "the collection of rules imposed by authority".
What is the opposite of law?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for law; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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