illegitimate
/ɘlɘˈdʒɘtɘmɘt/
Dictionary
noun
- A person born to unmarried parents.
verb
- To make illegitimate.
adjective
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not correctly deduced.
"an illegitimate inference"
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
"an illegitimate word"
- Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
"illegitimate union; illegitimate fertilization"
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