illegitimate
Short definition from Wiktionary
Adjective
- Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
- Not in accordance with the law.
- Not sanctioned by marriage.
- Not sanctioned by marriage: Born to unmarried parents.
- Not sanctioned by marriage: Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.
- Not correctly deduced.
- Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
- Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
Noun
- A person born to unmarried parents.
Verb
- To make illegitimate.
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