| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Illegitimate.[Websters]
2. To be unfaired or unrighted. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. To have wronged, corrupted, fouled or blacked. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. To be adulterated. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. To have outlawed. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. To have bootlegged or based.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb illegitimate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Base (illegitimately) | 1. In a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom; "He acted illegitimately when he increased the rent fourfold".[Wordnet]. 2. Of biological parents not married to each other; "this child was born illegitimately".[Wordnet]. 3. In a illegitimate manner; unlawfully.[Websters]. 4. In an irregular, clandestine or unlawful manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. In a false or inaccurate manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. In a natural or extramarital manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. In an illicit or contraband manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. In a lawless or wrongful manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. In a spurious, supposititious or adulterine manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Infrequently used adverbial inflection of the adjective illegitimate.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (illegitimate) | 1. To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: illegitimating, illegitimated, illegitimates, illegitimater, illegitimaters, illegitimatingly and illegitimatedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"ILLEGITIMATED" is a common misspelling or typo for: illegitimates. |
Date "ILLEGITIMATED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: illegitimate
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Adjective] Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; spurious; as an illegitimate son or daughter.. | 2: [Adjective] Unlawful; contrary to law.. | 3: [Adjective] Not genuine; not of genuine origin; as an illegitimate inference.. | 4: [Adjective] Not authorized by good usage; as an illegitimate word.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Law | ILLEGITIMATE. That which is contrary to law; it is usually applied to children born out of lawful wedlock. A bastard is sometimes called an illegitimate child. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Adjective] Born to unmarried parents. (references) | 2: [Adjective] Illegal; against the law. (references) | 3: [Adjective] Illogical; incorrectly deduced. (references) |
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Common Expressions: illegitimate
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Illegitimate child | The illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Illegitimate enterprise | An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Illegitimate fertilization | The fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. --Darwin. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
| Illegitimate union | (Bot.), the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. --Darwin. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: illegitimate
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Illegitimate male | Slang | Bastard. (references) | |
| Illegitimate recombination | Geology | Genetic recombination between two segments of DNA which are not homologous, and which occurs at random locations within their nucleotide sequences. Such a recombination is a rare event. (references) | |
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| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Illegitimate opportunity | 3 | Illegitimate opportunity | 3 | |
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