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. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz:

   Yesterday, the court doubled down with a 5-4 opinion that undermines not just the definition of marriage, but the very foundations of our representative system of government, for those who say the marriage decision yesterday is the law of the land, it is fundamentally illegitimate, it is wrong, it is not law, and it is not the Constitution.

2. Eddie Bernice Johnson:

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

3. Donald Trump:

   In its role as the only legitimate branch of government duly elected by the Venezuelan people, National Assembly invoked the country's constitution to declare Nicolas Maduro illegitimate, and the office of the presidency therefore vacant. The people of Venezuela have courageously spoken out against Maduro and his regime and demanded freedom and the rule of law.

4. 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.

5. Nicole Hannah-Jones:

   If you want to understand how does a White minority believe that the last election's illegitimate and actually ransack and lead an insurrection on the American Capitol, you have to understand the history of Black people in this country, and without that, you actually can't explain the election of Donald Trump, you can't explain what's happening in the Republican Party right now, and you can't explain the insurrection, you can't explain what happened to George Floyd – you can't explain any of that with the history that we're being taught.