illegitimate
IPA: ɪɫɪdʒˈɪtʌmɪt
noun
- A person born to unmarried parents.
verb
- (transitive) 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.
- Born to unmarried parents.
- (dated) Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
- (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
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Examples of "illegitimate" in Sentences
- The story of the illegitimate child was touching.
- Being an illegitimate child wasn't his own choice.
- The story of the illegitimate child seems unlikely.
- He is the illegitimate mutant son of Kraven the Hunter.
- The respondent was the father of the illegitimate child.
- But the reasons in the nom are illegitimate ones for deletion.
- The illegitimate son was not welcomed by anyone, neither his family.
- He regarded the former as legitimate and the latter as illegitimate.
- Hercules, the illegitimate son of the god Zeus and the mortal Alcmene.
- The surname was given to illegitimate children of the British monarch.