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legitimate

 
Adjective legitimate has 4 senses
  1. legitimate - of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
    Antonyms:
    illegitimate, adulterine, base, baseborn, bastard, bastardly, misbegot, misbegotten, spurious, fatherless, left-handed, unlawful, wrongful
  2. legitimate, logical - in accordance with reason or logic; "a logical conclusion"
    Antonym: invalid (indirect, via valid)
  3. legitimate - in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"
    Antonym:
    unestablished (indirect, via established)
  4. lawful, legitimate, licit - authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law; "a legitimate government"
    Antonym: illegal (indirect, via legal)
Verb legitimate has 3 senses
  1. legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise - make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized"
    --1 is one way to permit, allow, let, countenance
    Derived forms: noun legitimation2, noun legitimacy1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  2. legitimate - show or affirm to be just and legitimate
    --2 is one way to
    justify, vindicate
    Derived form: noun legitimation2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
  3. legitimate - make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child"
    --3 is one way to
    change, alter, modify
    Derived form: noun legitimation1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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