Without law or control.

synonyms: anarchic, anarchical.

Roget 83: uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous^†; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny.    unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary; strange, monstrous; wonderful etc. 870; unexpected, unaccountable; outre [Fr.], out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis [Lat.]; unfashionable; fantastic, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues [Fr.], preternatural; denaturalized^†.    heterogeneous, heteroclite [Gramm.], amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal^†; asymmetric etc. 243; adelomorphous^†, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous^†.    qualified etc. 469.    singular, unique, one-of-a-kind.    newfangled, novel, non-classical; original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled.    ... show more

Roget 742: disobedient; uncomplying, uncompliant; unsubmissive^†, unruly, ungovernable; breachy^†, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible; restiff^†, restive; refractory, contumacious, recusant etc. (refuse) 764; recalcitrant; resisting etc. 719; lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous.    unobeyed^†; unbidden.    ... show more

Roget 773: violating etc. v.; lawless, transgressive; elusive, evasive.    unfulfilled etc. (fulfill) etc. 772.   

Roget 945: vicious; sinful; sinning etc. v.; wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal; naughty, incorrect; unduteous^†, undutiful.    unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores [Lat.], indecorous, unseemly, improper; dissolute, profligate, scampish; unworthy; worthless; desertless^†; disgraceful, recreant; reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable; discreditable, disreputable; Sadistic.    base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous^†, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed.    Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike^†, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish.    miscreated^†, misbegotten; demoralized, corrupt, depraved.    evil-minded, evil-disposed; ill-conditioned; malevolent etc. 907; heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless; abandoned, lost to virtue; unconscionable; sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity.    incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for; culpable, reprehensible etc. (guilty) 947.    unjustifiable; indefensible, inexcusable; inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible^†.    weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect; indiscrete; demoralizing, degrading.    ... show more

Roget 964: illegal [contrary to law], unlawful, illegitimate; not allowed, prohibited etc. 761; illicit, contraband; actionable.    unwarranted, unwarrantable; unauthorized; informal, unofficial; injudicial^†, extrajudicial.    lawless, arbitrary; despotic, despotical^†; corrupt, summary, irresponsible; unanswerable, unaccountable.    [of invalid or expired law] expired, invalid; unchartered, unconstitutional; null and void; a dead letter.    [in absence of law] lawless, unregulated ... show more

Polish: anarchiczny, anarchistyczny

Lax in enforcing laws.

synonym: wide-open.

Disobedient to or defiant of law:
— Lawless bands roaming the plains.

synonym: outlaw.