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legitimate
[ adjective noun li-jit-uh-mit; verb li-jit-uh-meyt ]
adjective
- according to law; lawful:
the property's legitimate owner.
Antonyms: illegitimate
- in accordance with established rules, principles, or standards.
Synonyms: sanctioned
- born in wedlock or of legally married parents:
legitimate children.
- in accordance with the laws of reasoning; logically inferable; logical:
a legitimate conclusion.
Synonyms: valid
- resting on or ruling by the principle of hereditary right:
a legitimate sovereign.
- not spurious or unjustified; genuine:
It was a legitimate complaint.
- of the normal or regular type or kind.
- Theater. of or relating to professionally produced stage plays, as distinguished from burlesque, vaudeville, television, motion pictures, etc.:
an actor in the legitimate theater.
verb (used with object)
- to make lawful or legal; pronounce or state as lawful:
Parliament legitimated his accession to the throne.
Synonyms: legalize
- to establish as lawfully born:
His bastard children were afterward legitimated by law.
- to show or declare to be legitimate or proper:
He was under obligation to legitimate his commission.
- to justify; sanction or authorize:
His behavior was legitimated by custom.
noun
- the legitimate, the legitimate theater or drama.
- a person who is established as being legitimate.
legitimate
adjective
- born in lawful wedlock; enjoying full filial rights
- conforming to established standards of usage, behaviour, etc
- based on correct or acceptable principles of reasoning
- reasonable, sensible, or valid
a legitimate question
- authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law
- of, relating to, or ruling by hereditary right
a legitimate monarch
- of or relating to a body of famous long-established plays as distinct from films, television, vaudeville, etc
the legitimate theatre
verb
- tr to make, pronounce, or show to be legitimate
Derived Forms
- leˈgitimately, adverb
- leˈgitimacy, noun
- leˌgitiˈmation, noun
Other Words From
- le·giti·mate·ly adverb
- le·giti·mate·ness noun
- le·giti·mation noun
- dele·giti·mate verb (used with object) delegitimated delegitimating
- dele·giti·mation noun
- nonle·giti·mate adjective
- postle·giti·mation noun
- quasi-le·giti·mate adjective
- quasi-le·giti·mate·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of legitimate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of legitimate1
Example Sentences
According to Roman Sannikov, a Russia specialist with cybersecurity firm Recorded Future, the high volume of legitimate cryptocurrency use in Eastern Europe is a legacy of the Soviet Union and its collapse.
Turkey argues that Hamas — which won the last election in 2006 — is the legitimate representative of the people of Gaza.
In addition to pinpointing medically legitimate reasons to make CRISPR babies, the panelists also called for an international body to oversee the work.
Not if people are just trying to knock you, but if they’re trying to be substantive, serious, legitimate.
Urban was partially inspired by Andrej Karpathy, who a few years ago trained a neural network to generate mathematical-looking nonsense that looked legitimate to nonexperts.
There are limits to the painting of banditry and extortion as the legitimate raising of taxes.
In 2012, as a 10th grader, Lean says he recorded his first legitimate song, “Hurt.”
He was courteous, explained the legitimate reason we were briefly pulled over, and then let us continue on our way.
In Turkey, crime groups in border areas are exploiting the labor of Syrian male refugees who cannot find legitimate employment.
There are legitimate criticisms of the study, but not because it includes “attempted forced kissing,” as Lowry suggested.
I didn't much like his offhand way of asking; not that it wasn't a perfectly legitimate query.
Education is the cultivation of a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things.
Education is a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind and things.
This people worked, through legitimate channels, to advance its ideal, inspired by the purest loyalty to Spain.
In spite of this acknowledged defect, many of the best players in this country regard it as a legitimate and helpful device.
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