Word Meanings - ILLEGITIMATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper. 2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child. 3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference.

Additional info about word: ILLEGITIMATE

1. Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper. 2. Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child. 3. Not legitimately deduced or inferred; illogical; as, an illegitimate inference. 4. Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word. Illegitimate fertilization, or Illegitimate union , the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin.

Related words: (words related to ILLEGITIMATE)

• CHILDSHIP
  The state or relation of being a child.
• BASTARDLY
  Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
• CHILDISHNESS
  The state or quality of being childish; simplicity; harmlessness; weakness of intellect.
• DEDUCTIVE
  Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• ACCORD
  1. To agree; to correspond; to be in harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak. Thy actions to thy words accord. Milton. 2. To agree in pitch and tone.
• CHILDED
  Furnished with a child.
• CHILDBIRTH
  The act of bringing forth a child; travail; labor. Jer. Taylor.
• DEDUCTIVELY
  By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence. Sir T. Browne.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• INFERRIBLE
  Inferable.
• ACCORDANCY
  Accordance. Paley.
• CHILDISH
  1. Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child. "Childish innocence." Macaulay. 2. Peurile; trifling; weak. Methinks that simplicity in her countenance is rather childish than innocent. Addison. Note: Childish, as applied tc persons who
• ACCORDANTLY
  In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to.
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• CHILD STUDY
  A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• BEGOTTEN
  p. p. of Beget.
• ACCORDINGLY
  1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. 2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate
• GODCHILD
  One for whom a person becomes sponsor at baptism, and whom he promises to see educated as a Christian; a godson or goddaughter. See Godfather.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• BASTARD
  F. b, a packsaddle used as a bed by the muleteers + -ard. OF. fils de bast son of the packsaddle; as the muleteers were accustomed to use their saddles for beds in the inns. See Cervantes, 1. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of