unconstitutional
- 1Going against, or in violation of, the constitution of a state or other sovereign institution.
The Supreme Court struck down the statute as unconstitutional.
Critics argued that the executive order was plainly unconstitutional.
Similarillegal, unlawful, invalid, illegitimate
Oppositeconstitutional
Note
Mostly a verdict, delivered by someone with the power to deliver it: bills and laws are declared or ruled unconstitutional, and a court that does so is exercising judicial review. It often travels with unenforceable, as in Kate Conger's 2021 report on California's gig-worker law, because the finding is what stops a statute from binding anyone. Built from un- plus constitutional, it shares its ground with anticonstitutional.
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Origin
Formed from the prefix un- plus constitutional.