Illegitimate Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭlĭ-jĭtə-mĭt
Born of unmarried parents
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. bastard
  2. baseborn
  3. natural
  4. misbegotten
  5. born out of wedlock
  6. fatherless
  7. unlawfully begotten
  8. of illicit union
  9. unfathered
  10. byblown
  11. spurious
  12. born on the wrong side of the sheet
  13. unlawful
The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bastard
  2. bar-sinister
  3. by-blow
  4. love-child
  5. mongrel
  6. illegitimate child
  7. whoreson

Words Related to Illegitimate

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Illegitimate Sentence Examples

  • The cousin had to be the illegitimate daughter of the old man.

  • Experiment showed that legitimate unions yield a larger quantity of seed than illegitimate.

  • He died in 1458, leaving Naples t le Mo to his illegitimate son Ferdinand I.

  • He seems, in addition, to have compromised his position with the grandducal family by the imprudent candour with which he condemned a machine for clearing the port of Leghorn, invented by Giovanni de' Medici, an illegitimate son of Cosmo I.

  • John averted the danger by arranging a marriage between his son Henry and Constance, the eldest daughter of John of Gaunt, an alliance which united the two equally illegitimate lines representing Alphonso XI., and so closed the dispute as to the succession.

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