legitimate

legitimate is a 10-letter English word with 13 senses as adjective, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Accordant with law or with established legal forms and requirements; lawful; as, legitimate government; legitimate rights; the legitimate succession to the throne; a legitimate proceeding of an officer; a legitimate heir.
2. adjective. Lawfully begotten; born in wedlock.
3. adjective. Authorized; real; genuine; not false, counterfeit, or spurious; as, legitimate poems of Chaucer; legitimate inscriptions.
4. adjective. Conforming to known principles, or accepted rules; as, legitimate reasoning; a legitimate standard, or method; a legitimate combination of colors.
5. adjective. Following by logical sequence; reasonable; as, a legitimate result; a legitimate inference.
6. transitive verb. To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; esp., to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means; as, to legitimate a bastard child.
7. verb. make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone)

   "They legitimized their natural child"

8. verb. show or affirm to be just and legitimate
9. verb. make legal

   "Marijuana should be legalized"

   Synonyms: decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize

10. adjective. authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law

    "a legitimate government"

    Synonyms: lawful, licit

11. adjective. of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful
12. adjective. in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles

    "legitimate advertising practices"

13. adjective. based on known statements or events or conditions

    "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"

    Synonyms: logical

Synonyms

decriminalise, decriminalize, legalise, legalize, legitimatise, legitimatize, legitimise, legitimize, lawful, licit, logical

Common word forms

legitimated, legitimately, legitimating, legitimateness

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for LEGITIMATE lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.