'Illegitimate' definitions:
Definition of 'illegitimate'
From: WordNet
adjective
Contrary to or forbidden by law; "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures" [syn: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawful]
adjective
Of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful [ant: legitimate]
noun
The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents [syn: bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoreson]
Definition of 'Illegitimate'
From: GCIDE
- Illegitimate \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. [1913 Webster]
- The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, without illegitimating the issue. --Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Illegitimate'
From: GCIDE
- Illegitimate \Il`le*git"i*mate\, a.
- 1. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word. [1913 Webster]
- Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. --Darwin. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'illegitimate'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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