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Adjective legitimate has 4 senses
- legitimate - of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
Antonyms: illegitimate, adulterine, base, baseborn, bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious, fatherless, left-handed, unlawful, wrongful
- legitimate, logical - in accordance with reason or logic; "a logical conclusion"
Antonym: invalid (indirect, via valid)
- legitimate - in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"
Antonym: unestablished (indirect, via established)
- lawful, legitimate, licit - authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government"
Antonym: illegal (indirect, via legal)
Verb legitimate has 3 senses
- legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise - make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"
--1 is one way to permit, allow, let, countenance
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- legitimate - show or affirm to be just and legitimate
--2 is one way to justify, vindicate
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- legitimate - make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child"
--3 is one way to change, alter, modify
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
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