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 - REGULARIA
A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins. - ACCORDANTLY
In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to. - 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