illegitimate
Plural: illegitimates
Noun
- the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
- A person born to unmarried parents.
Adjective Satellite
- contrary to or forbidden by law
- "an illegitimate seizure of power"
Adjective
- of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
Adj
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
- Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
Verb
- To make illegitimate.
Examples
- an illegitimate child
- an illegitimate inference
Origin / Etymology
First attested in 1536, from Latin illēgitimus, most likely an adapted borrowing of Middle French illegitime, equivalent to il- + legitimate, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
Synonyms
bastard, by-blow, illegitimate child, illicit, love child, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful, whoreson, base, base born, baseborn, bastardly, degenerate, extramarital, illegal, illegitimate, illogical, invalid, lovechild, misbegotten, nameless, natural, natural child, spurious, unwanted
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
illegitimate: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordillegitimate: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
illegitimate: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary