meaning of illegitimate
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.
5. To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.
6. the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
Related Words
illegitimate | illegitimate child | illegitimate enterprise | illegitimated | illegitimately |
