Illegitimate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Against the law; illegal.
  • adj. Born out of wedlock.
  • adj. Grammar Not in correct usage.
  • adj. Incorrectly deduced; illogical.
  • adj. Biology Unacceptable as a scientific name because of contradiction to the international rules of nomenclature.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Illegal; against the law.
  • adj. Born to unmarried parents.
  • adj. Illogical; incorrectly deduced.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
  • adj. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard.
  • adj. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical.
  • adj. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious.
  • v. To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Not legitimate.
  • Not logically inferred or deduced; not warranted; illogical: as, an illegitimate inference.
  • Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard: as, an illegitimate child. See legitimate.
  • In botany, produced by irregular or abnormal fertilization. See phrase below.
  • To render or prove illegitimate; attaint as having been born out of wedlock; bastardize.
  • n. An emigrant who has come of his own volition and has not had ‘legal reasons’ for his voyage. See legitimate, n., 2.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
  • adj. of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
  • adj. contrary to or forbidden by law
  • Equivalent
    adulterine    spurious    misbegot    left-handed    bastardly    base    fatherless    unlawful    wrongful    misbegotten   
    Antonym
    legal    logical    legitimate   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    progeny    issue    offspring   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unlawful    improper    bastard    illogical    spurious    bastardize    illegitimatize   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    long-lost    legitimate    unborn    illicit    illegal    rightful    fatherless    eleven-year-old    spurious    fraudulent