Meaning of illegitimate in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

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.

  Example: an illegitimate inference

• Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.

  Example: an illegitimate word

• Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.

  Example: illegitimate union; illegitimate fertilization