legitimate

Speech parts

1. legitimate - Noun

2. legitimate - Adjective

3. legitimate - Verb

4. legitimate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.

Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.

Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.

Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.

Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.

To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lawful legitimize true real legal bona fide correct recognized proper valid logical acceptable genuine authentic rightful
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Antonyms

illegitimate Hollywood wildcat tabu mime pinchbeck
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Hypernyms

change allow let permit alter modify

Hyponyms

monetize monetise

Phrases with the word

legitimate business legitimate reason legitimate interest legitimate target person with a legitimate interest legitimate system

Derivatives

legitimated legitimating

Anagrams

emiglitate

Examples

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class. Al Capone

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed. William Henry Harrison

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering. Carl Jung

Some things are easier to legalize than to legitimate. Nicolas Chamfort

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts. William Gibson

What is decided by legitimate authority is not resented by the subjects. Ganda Proverb

Close letter words and terms

legiterally legitim legitimacy legitimate business legitimate child legitimate commerce