Usually means: Conforming to established legal rules.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word lawful:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lawful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lawful: Merriam-Webster
  3. lawful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lawful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lawful: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lawful: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lawful, lawful: Wordnik
  8. lawful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lawful: Wiktionary
  10. lawful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lawful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lawful: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lawful: Dictionary.com
  14. lawful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lawful: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lawful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lawful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lawful: Rhymezone
  19. Lawful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lawful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lawful: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lawful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lawful: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. lawful: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. lawful: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. lawful: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lawful: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lawful: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lawful: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See lawfully as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (law) Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.
adjective:  Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.
adjective:  (roleplaying games) Of a character: having an alignment which makes them tend to follow the laws and conventions of society.
noun:  (roleplaying games) A character having a lawful alignment.

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