Illegitimate synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
born out of wedlock
Born of unmarried parents
Contrary to conscience, morality, or law:
Mean or ignoble in character or spirit
illegal (related)
(Chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
Without a living father.
Expressing contempt, disdain, or hatred
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unlawfully begotten
Born of unmarried parents
of illicit union
Born of unmarried parents
unfathered
Being or having been deprived of paternal care.
byblown
Born of unmarried parents
born on the wrong side of the sheet
Born of unmarried parents
Not correct; erroneous or wrong:
(Linguistics) not conforming to accepted usage
wicked (related)
(Slang) Strikingly good, effective, or skillful:
adulterine
Due to adulteration
Not genuine; sham; inferior
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The definition of erratic is something that is not consistent or is lacking in a fixed course.
Not in keeping with conventional mores; indecorous:
Not valid; not true, correct, acceptable or appropriate.
Not conforming to established rule, method, usage, standard, etc.; out of the ordinary; anomalous
Not true or genuine; false; counterfeit
Based upon supposition
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Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit.
Not warranted; unjustified; being without warrant, authority, or guaranty; unwarrantable.
(Heraldry, considered nonstandard) A bend sinister or baton sinister in a coat of arms.
Anything produced by indiscriminate mixture
Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).
legitimate (antonym)
blessed (antonym)
Used as an intensive:
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legal (antonym)
The definition of legal is something connected to law or a government’s system of rules.
authorized (antonym)
justifiable (antonym)
That can be justified.
sanctioned (antonym)
not legal
warranted (antonym)
Authorized with a warrant.
moral (antonym)
Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction, rather than on the actual evidence:
Without law; not regulated by the authority of law
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Wrong or unjust:
The definition of criminal is someone or something related to the commission of a crime.
crimes (related)
Prohibited by law
law (related)
A statement that describes invariable relationships among phenomena under a specified set of conditions. Boyle's law, for instance, describes what will happen to the volume of an ideal gas if its pressure changes and its temperature remains the same. The conditions under which some physical laws hold are idealized (for example, there are no ideal gases in the real world), thus some physical laws apply universally but only approximately.
kin (related)
Related, as by blood
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contrary to or forbidden by law
An indirect blow or hit
Alternative spelling of love child.
the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
(Literally) The son of a prostitute.
disinherit (related)
unmarried (related)
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unconstitutional (related)
Prohibited from being imported or exported.
ethical (antonym)
Individual codes of ethics are commonly seen as those unwritten rules of behavior instilled in an individual by their upbringing and environment. Examples of societal ethical codes can include such things as:
Find another word for illegitimate. In this page you can discover 59 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for illegitimate, like: born out of wedlock, illogical, wrong, baseborn, illegal, fatherless, misbegotten, unlawfully begotten, of illicit union, unfathered and byblown.