in violation of law (adjective) illicit: not legal; forbidden
Detalii: elicit means to call forth emotions, feelings, and responses or to bring out or draw out, while illicit means contrary to or forbidden by law - unlawfulliterally, illegitimate is 'not lawful' and illicit is 'not allowed'a form of conduct will be illicit and a type of practice will be illegal
Sinonime: abashed, addled, addlepated, at a loss, at sea, at sixes and sevens, baffled, befuddled, bewildered, come apart,
confounded, confusional, dazed, discombobulated*, disconcerted, disorganized, distracted, flummoxed, flustered, fouled up, glassy-eyed, gone*, misled, mixed up, muddled, nonplussed, not with it, out to lunch, perplexed, perturbed, punch-drunk, punchy, puzzled, screwy, shook up, shot to pieces, slaphappy, spaced out, stumped, taken aback, thrown, thrown off balance, turbid, unglued, unscrewed, unzipped
Antonime: blessed,
good,
legal,
legitimate, licit,
moral,
noble,
proper,
right