Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun statute

1 sense of statute

Sense 1
legislative act, statute -- (an act passed by a legislative body)
       => act, enactment -- (a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body)

Antonyms of adj statute

1 sense of statute

Sense 1
codified, statute (predicate) -- (enacted by a legislative body; "statute law"; "codified written laws")

INDIRECT (VIA written) -> unwritten -- (based on custom rather than documentation; "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence)

Similarity of adj statute

1 sense of statute

Sense 1
codified, statute (predicate) -- (enacted by a legislative body; "statute law"; "codified written laws")
       => written (vs. unwritten) -- (systematically collected and written down; "written laws")