illegitimate

Word family

il·le·git·i·mate /ˌɪləˈdʒɪtəmət◂/ adjectiveadj

1 MARRYborn to parents who are not married 私生的 OPP legitimate

his illegitimate son

他的私生子

2 LET/ALLOWnot allowed or acceptable according to rules or agreements 不合规则[协定]的，非法的 OPP legitimate

a distinction between legitimate and illegitimate trade

合法贸易和非法贸易的区别

—illegitimately adverbadv

—illegitimacy noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

illegitimate• Many of these insurance claims are illegitimate.• In 1960,2 percent of white births and 22 percent of black births were illegitimate.• John F.. Kennedy won by a hair and under questionable circumstances, yet his presidency was never considered illegitimate.• In the mid-1980s, about one-third of first births are illegitimate as was discussed in chapter 3.• an illegitimate child• We're not peppering the world with illegitimate children.• Trying artificially to separate politics and management, or treat the former as an illegitimate intrusion, is naive.• In a Newcastle study, more than 70 percent of first illegitimate pregnancies were followed by another.• We refer, of course, to the existence of her illegitimate son.• Yet he made no attempt to harass the driver into any illegitimate speed.

il·le·git·i·mate adjectiveadj

Chinese

Syllable

Corpus