Synonyms for illegitimate
ˌɪl ɪˈdʒɪt ə mɪtil·le·git·i·mate

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1. illegitimateadjective

   Antonyms:
   logical, legal, legitimate

2. illegitimateadjective

   Antonyms:
   logical, legal, legitimate

3. illegitimateadjective

   Antonyms:
   legitimate, legal, logical

4. illegitimateadjective

   Antonyms:
   legitimate, legal, logical

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1. bastard, by-blow, love child, illegitimate child, illegitimate, whoresonadjective

   the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

   Synonyms:
   bastard, love child, mongrel, dickhead, son of a bitch, by-blow, prick, cocksucker, shit, whoreson, asshole, illegitimate child

   Antonyms:
   true(a), lawful, morganatic, legal, left-handed, rightful(a), legitimate, lawfully-begotten

2. illegitimate, illicit, outlaw(a), outlawed, unlawfuladjective

   contrary to or forbidden by law

   "an illegitimate seizure of power"; "illicit trade"; "an outlaw strike"; "unlawful measures"

   Antonyms:
   lawfully-begotten, morganatic, legitimate, true(a), legal, rightful(a), left-handed, lawful

3. illegitimateadjective

   of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful

   Synonyms:
   outlaw(a), unlawful, illicit, outlawed

   Antonyms:
   lawful, lawfully-begotten, morganatic, true(a), legitimate, left-handed, rightful(a), legal

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1. illegitimateadjective

   Synonyms:
   unlawfully begotten, born out of wedlock

2. illegitimateadjective

   Synonyms:
   spurious, not genuine

3. illegitimateadjective

   Synonyms:
   unauthorized, unlawful, illicit, improper

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1. illegitimateadjective

   Synonyms:
   bastard, adulterine, illegal, illicit, spurious

2. illegitimateverb

   Synonyms:
   illegitimatize, bastardize

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1. List of paraphrases for "illegitimate":

   unlawful, illegal, illicit, spurious, improper

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1. Cindy De La Hoz:

   She was a fatherless child, her birth father would not marry her mother … He allowed [ Sophia ] to use his last name, but everyone in town knew she was illegitimate. She was made fun of for that. And growing up, she saw war all around her house. She had very, very little food. When air raids would strike the town, she and her family would run for over and had to go in hiding … There was disease, rodents … Because they had such scarcity of food, she was very, very thin. That’s how she gained her nickname in school, Toothpick.

2. Brian Brown:

   We will work to overturn any illegitimate Supreme Court ruling and we will make sure that folks understand that Supreme Court is an illegitimate ruling by Supreme Court.

3. August Pfluger:

   The number of Venezuelan migrants encountered by [CBP] has increased nearly 3,000 percent from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2022, given the reports of the deliberate, nefarious actions of the illegitimate Maduro regime, it is more important than ever that CBP has the tools and capabilities in place to identify foreign violent criminals, affiliates of FTOs, and affiliates of TCOs.

4. That Stonehouse:

   Philip Athill was Philip Athill and an observer, philip Athill was illegitimate and was brought up largely by Philip Athill mother in France, and it later emerged that Philip Athill was gay when Philip Athill had an affair with a male Swedish film star.

5. Eddie Bernice Johnson:

   [W]e won’t be complicit in the illegitimate harassment of our Nation’s research scientists.