illegitimate

  • (noun): A person born to unmarried parents.
  • (verb): To make illegitimate.
  • (adjective): Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
  • (adjective): Not in accordance with the law.
  • (adjective): Not sanctioned by marriage.
  • (adjective): Not correctly deduced.
  • (adjective): Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
  • (adjective): Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
  • an illegitimate inference
  • an illegitimate word
  • illegitimate union; illegitimate fertilization