Pronunciation Adjective
legitimate
- In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements.
- Synonyms: lawful, legal
- Antonyms: illegitimate
- Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
- legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard or method
Macaulay - Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic.
- Authentic, real, genuine.
- Antonyms: illegitimate
- Antonyms: false
- legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions
Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple. [from mid-14th century] - Synonyms: rightful
- Antonyms: illegitimate
- Relating to hereditary rights.
- Russian: законнорождённый
- Spanish: legítimo
- Italian: legittimo
legitimate (plural legitimates)
- A person born to a legally married couple.
legitimate (legitimates, present participle legitimating; past and past participle legitimated)
- (transitive) To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means. [from 1590]
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