Illegitimate
Full definition of illegitimate
Adjective
illegitimate
- Illegal; against the law.
- Born to unmarried parents.an illegitimate child
- Illogical; incorrectly deduced.an illegitimate inference
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious.an illegitimate word
- (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.illegitimate union; illegitimate fertilization