Thesaurus:illegitimate

THESAURUS

illegitimate

English

Adjective

Sense: of a person, born to unmarried parents

Synonyms

• illegitimate
• base
• baseborn
• base born
• bastardly
• extramarital
• misbegotten
• nameless
• natural
• spurious
• unwanted

Antonyms

• legitimate

Hyponyms

• fatherless
• motherless
• unfathered
• unmothered

See also

• Thesaurus:bastard

Further reading

• “925. undueness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “illegitimate” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.