About The Word Illegitimate
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Illegitimate
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What's The Definition Of Illegitimate?
[n] the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
[adj] contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" [adj] of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful Synonyms | Synonyms for Illegitimate: adulterine | base | baseborn | bastard | bastard | bastardly | by-blow | fatherless | illegal | illegitimate child | illicit | left-handed | love child | misbegot | misbegotten | outlaw(a) | outlawed | spurious | unlawful | whoreson | wrongful Related Terms | Find terms related to Illegitimate: actionable | affected | against the law | anarchic | anarchistic | anomic | apocryphal | artificial | assumed | bantling | bar sinister | baseborn | bastard | bastard child | bastardy | black-market | bogus | bootleg | brummagem | by-blow | chargeable | colorable | colored | contraband | contrary to law | counterfeit | counterfeited | criminal | distorted | dressed up | dummy | embellished | embroidered | ersatz | factitious | fake | faked | false | falsified | fatherless | feigned | felonious | fictitious | fictive | flawed | garbled | illegal | illegitimacy | illegitimate child | illicit | imitation | impermissible | improper | incorrect | invalid | irregular | junky | justiciable | lawless | love child | make-believe | man-made | misbegotten | miscreated | mock | natural | nonconstitutional | nonlegal | nonlicit | outlaw | outlawed | perverted | phony | pinchbeck | pretended | pseudo | punishable | put-on | quasi | queer | self-styled | sham | shoddy | simulated | so-called | soi-disant | spurious | supposititious | synthetic | tin | tinsel | titivated | triable | twisted | unallowed | unauthentic | unauthorized | unconstitutional | under-the-counter | under-the-table | ungenuine | unlawful | unnatural | unofficial | unreal | unstatutory | unwarrantable | unwarranted | warped | wrongful See Also | invalid | issue | offspring | progeny | unauthorised | unauthorized Illegitimate In Webster's Dictionary \Il`le*git"i*mate\, a.
1. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful;
improper.
2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an
illegitimate child.
3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an
illegitimate inference.
4. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as,
an illegitimate word.
{Illegitimate fertilization}, or {Illegitimate union} (Bot.),
the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own
length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic
flowers. --Darwin.
\Il`le*git"i*mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Illegitimated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Illegitimating}.] To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize. The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. --Bp. Burnet. |
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