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illegitimate🔊

Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.

📑 Synonyms: invalid

Not in accordance with the law.

📑 Synonyms: illegal illicit unlawful

Not sanctioned by marriage.

Born to unmarried parents.

(dated) Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.

Not correctly deduced.

📑 Synonyms: illogical invalid

Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.

📑 Synonyms: spurious

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

A person born to unmarried parents.

To make illegitimate.