Illegitimate synonyms

ĭl'ĭ-jĭt'ə-mĭt

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born out of wedlock
Born of unmarried parents
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illogical (related)
Contrary to logic; lacking sense or sound reasoning.
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erratic
The definition of erratic is something that is not consistent or is lacking in a fixed course.
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wrong
Contrary to conscience, morality, or law:
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baseborn
Mean or ignoble in character or spirit
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illegal (related)
(Chiefly US, sometimes offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
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fatherless
Without a living father.
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misbegotten
Expressing contempt, disdain, or hatred
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unlawfully begotten
Born of unmarried parents
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of illicit union
Born of unmarried parents
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unfathered
Being or having been deprived of paternal care.
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byblown
Born of unmarried parents
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born on the wrong side of the sheet
Born of unmarried parents
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unsound
Not sound; not whole; not solid; defective; infirm; diseased.
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incorrect
Not correct; erroneous or wrong:
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unacceptable
(Linguistics) not conforming to accepted usage
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wicked (related)
(Slang) Strikingly good, effective, or skillful:
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adulterine
Due to adulteration
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bastard
Not genuine; sham; inferior
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counterfeit
False, especially of money; intended to deceive or carry appearance of being genuine.
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debased
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illicit
(Law) Not approved by law, but not invalid.
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improper
Not in keeping with conventional mores; indecorous:
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irregular
Not conforming to established rule, method, usage, standard, etc.; out of the ordinary; anomalous
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spurious
Not true or genuine; false; counterfeit
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suppositious
Based upon supposition
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supposititious
Spurious; substituted for the genuine, counterfeit.
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bar-sinister
(Heraldry, considered nonstandard) A bend sinister or baton sinister in a coat of arms.
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mongrel
Anything produced by indiscriminate mixture
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unlawful
Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).
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legitimate (antonym)
Authentic, real, genuine.
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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.
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authorized (antonym)
Explicitly allowed.
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justifiable (antonym)
That can be justified.
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sanctioned (antonym)
not legal
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warranted (antonym)
Authorized with a warrant.
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moral (antonym)
Based on strong likelihood or firm conviction, rather than on the actual evidence:
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lawless
Without law; not regulated by the authority of law
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outlawed
(Of a person) put beyond the limits of the law, declared an outlaw or declared a criminal.
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wrongful
Wrong or unjust:
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criminal
The definition of criminal is someone or something related to the commission of a crime.
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natural
That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.
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crimes (related)
Prohibited by law
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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.
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kin (related)
Related, as by blood
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outlaw
contrary to or forbidden by law
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by-blow
An indirect blow or hit
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love-child
Alternative spelling of love child.
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illegitimate child
the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
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whoreson
(Literally) The son of a prostitute.
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disinherit (related)
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unmarried (related)
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unconstitutional (related)
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contraband
Prohibited from being imported or exported.
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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:
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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, erratic, wrong, baseborn, illegal, fatherless, misbegotten, unlawfully begotten, of illicit union and unfathered.
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Illegitimate Sentence Examples

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

  • He left one son, his successor Alexander II., and two daughters, Margaret and Isabella, who were sent to England after the treaty of 1209, and who both married English nobles, Margaret becoming the wife of Hubert de Burgh.He also left some illegitimate children.

  • It afterwards became known that he was the illegitimate son of the chevalier Destouches and Madame de Tencin.

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