lawless Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite without law or control
    anarchical; anarchic.
    • the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic
  2. adjective satellite lax in enforcing laws
    wide-open.
    • a wide-open town
  3. adjective satellite disobedient to or defiant of law
    outlaw.
    • lawless bands roaming the plains

WordNet

Law"less adjective
Definitions
  1. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim.
    He needs no indirect nor lawless course. Shak.
  2. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior.
  3. Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled.
    Or, meteorlike, flame lawless through the void. Pope.
    -- Law"less*ly, adv. -- Law"less*ness, n.

Webster 1913