Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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illegitimate

[ɪlɨˈd͡ʒɪɾəmɨt] adjective, noun, verb

Forms illegitimates illegitimating illegitimated

  1. adjective Not conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards.
  2. adjective Not in accordance with the law.
  3. adjective Not sanctioned by marriage.
  4. adjective Born to unmarried parents. “an illegitimate child”
  5. adjective (dated) Having a child or children with a person to whom one is not married.
  6. adjective Not correctly deduced. “an illegitimate inference”
  7. adjective Not authorized by good usage; not genuine.
  8. adjective (botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
  9. noun A person born to unmarried parents.
  10. verb (transitive) To make illegitimate.

Synonyms

invalid nonstandard illegal illicit unlawful crimeful criminal lawbreaking nonlawful outlawed wrongful natural illogical bogus ingenuine spurious artificial bad bollocks concocted bastard by-blow love child illegitimate child whoreson outlaw

Antonyms

legitimate valid acceptable allowable legit leveful licit permissible rightful rulable true legal

Etymology

First attested in 1536, from Latin illēgitimus, most likely an adapted borrowing of Middle French illegitime, equivalent to il- + legitimate, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Not according to law; not regular or authorized; unlawful; improper.
  2. adjective Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child.
  3. verb To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “illegitimate”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “illegitimate” (best matches first).