lawful

• lawfull (obsolete)

From Middle English laweful, equivalent to law +‎ -ful, conflated with Middle English leful, leeful, leveful (“according to law, lawful, pertaining to law”). See also leveful.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔːfʊl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːfʊl

lawful (comparative more lawful, superlative most lawful)

1. (law) Conforming to, or recognised by the laws of society.

   Lawful money is always a land asset and can only be issued by an actual land jurisdiction government — not a corporation.

   Synonyms: just, legal, legitimate, licit

   Antonyms: nonlawful, unlawful

2. Operating according to some law or fundamental principle.
   • 2014, George Ortega, Free Will: Its Refutation, Societal Cost and Role in Climate Change Denial

     […] so that the person's actions are merely the inevitable product of lawful causes stemming from prior events […]

• lawfully
• lawfulness

• awfull

lawful

1. Alternative form of laweful