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Legitimate

Legitimate Meaning & Definition
Legitimate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Legitimate?

[adj] authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government"
[adj] of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
[adj] in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"
[adj] in accordance with reason or logic; "a logical conclusion"
[v] make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child"
[v] show or affirm to be just and legitimate
[v] make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Legitimate: constituted | decriminalise | decriminalize | established | lawful | lawfully-begotten | left-handed | legal | legalise | legalize | legitimatise | legitimatize | legitimise | legitimize | licit | logical | morganatic | rightful(a) | true(a)

Related Terms | Find terms related to Legitimate: acceptable | actionable | actor-proof | admissible | allowable | all-star | applicable | authentic | authoritative | authorize | authorized | ballet | balletic | binding | bona fide | by law | candid | card-carrying | certify | cinematic | cinematographic | cogent | competent | condonable | consistent | constitutional | correct | credible | de jure | defensible | dinkum | dispensable | dramatic | dramatical | dramaturgic | excusable | exemptible | expiable | fair | film | filmic | following the letter | forgivable | genuine | good | ham | hammy | histrionic | honest | honest-to-God | inartificial | inoffensive | judicial | juridical | just | justiciable | justifiable | kosher | lawful | lawmaking | legal | legalize | legislative | legit | legitimatize | legitimize | legitimized | licit | lifelike | literal | logical | melodramatic | milked | monodramatic | movie | natural | naturalistic | operatic | original | overacted | overplayed | pardonable | permissible | plausible | proper | pure | rational | real | realistic | reasonable | remissible | right | rightful | sanction | sanctionable | sanctioned | sane | scenic | self-consistent | sensible | simon-pure | simple | sincere | solid | sound | spectacular | stagelike | stageworthy | stagy | starstruck | statutory | stellar | sterling | substantial | sufficient | sure-enough | theaterlike | theatrical | thespian | thrown away | true | true to life | true to nature | true to reality | unadulterated | unaffected | unassumed | unassuming | uncolored | unconcocted | uncopied | uncounterfeited | underacted | underplayed | undisguised | undisguising | undistorted | unexaggerated | unfabricated | unfanciful | unfeigned | unfeigning | unfictitious | unflattering | unimagined | unimitated | uninvented | unobjectionable | unpretended | unpretending | unqualified | unromantic | unsimulated | unspecious | unsynthetic | unvarnished | valid | validate | vaudevillian | venial | verbal | verbatim | veridical | verisimilar | vindicable | warrant | warrantable | weighty | well-argued | well-founded | well-grounded | wholesome | within the law | word-for-word

See Also | allow | alter | authorised | authorized | change | countenance | justify | let | monetise | monetize | permit | valid | vindicate

Legitimate In Webster's Dictionary

\Le*git"i*mate\ (-m[asl]t), a. [LL. legitimatus, p. p. of legitimare to legitimate, fr. L. legitimus legitimate. See {Legal}.] 1. Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. 2. Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock. 3. Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions. 4. Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors. Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic. --Macaulay. 5. Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
\Le*git"i*mate\ (-m[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Legitimated} (-m[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Legitimating} (-m[=a]`t[i^]ng).] To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child. To enact a statute of that which he dares not seem to approve, even to legitimate vice. --Milton.

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