illegitimate
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˌɪlɪˈdʒɪtɪmət/
- Formal
:
ilegal
- The court ruled that the contract was illegitimate and therefore unenforceable.
- illegitimate government
- rendered illegitimate
- illegitimate and corrupt
And he says, you know, that's really an illegitimate way to reason.
- And he says, you know, that's really an illegitimate way to reason.
- He wants to try to call that illegitimate and drive it to the Supreme Court and let his picks decide his fate.
- If you have illegitimate people on board, you will fail.
- We can see a notion of the violence of society being directed to illegitimate ends and then being punished by the church.
- That when I hypothesized that these cases were identical, I was idealizing in an illegitimate way.
Examples
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Both circuit courts viewed this agreement as an illegitimate attempt to preserve monopolistic conditions.
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In short, conservatives and white supremacists during Reconstruction saw every layer of government as oppressive and illegitimate.
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Your orders are coming from a illegitimate government -
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So not only was his claim an illegitimate one, but it also only came through his mother.
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One method of opposition was illegitimate and should be avoided.
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Yet the majority saw the councils as illegitimate and corrupt.
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These people believe the entire state of Israel is illegitimate and shouldn't exist.
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We NDF refuse to recognize this illegitimate government.
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Many Palestinians view Israel as entirely illegitimate and a colonialist settler enterprise.
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Sexual misdeeds such as adultery, fornication, and illegitimate pregnancy were all grounds for exclusion.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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1.0
Not allowed by law or official rules
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3.2
Not allowed by law, rules, or custom
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4.0
Not allowed by law
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4.7
Not accepted by law or no longer in effect
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6.3
Not allowed by law or social rules
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4.6
Not allowed by law or not fair to others
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7.7
Not allowed by rules, laws, or official standards
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3.7
Not allowed by law or by an authority
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6.4
Not allowed by rules or laws
Not allowed by law or by people in charge
Not allowed by law or by people in charge
Not officially allowed by the government to sell goods or drive a vehicle
Antonyms
Compounds
How Legal
Surface Forms
Morphology
illegitimate = legitimate (transparent) = il + legitimate
Standard negation of 'legitimate' yielding 'not lawful' or 'not permitted by rules', which is directly inferable.
Etymology
Illegitimate comes from in- 'not' and legitimus 'allowed by law', so it literally means 'not lawful' and is used for actions or things that are 'not allowed by law' or illegal.