Thesaurus: illegitimate

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1. a. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
2. a. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.
3. a. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.
4. a. Not word/authorized">authorized by word/good">good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word.
5. v. t. To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.
6. adj. contrary to or forbidden by law
7. adj. of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful
8. n. the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
9. 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. 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.
10. To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out ofwedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.The marriage should only be dissolved for the future, withoutillegitimating the issue. Bp. Burnet.
11. j:100 s. contrary to or forbidden by law a. of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful