Illegible vs Illegitimate - What's the difference?
illegible | illegitimate |
Illegal; against the law.
Born to unmarried parents.
Illogical; incorrectly deduced.
Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious.
(botany) Involving the fertilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers.
As adjectives the difference between illegible and illegitimate
is that illegible is not clear enough to be read; unreadable; not legible or decipherable while illegitimate is illegal; against the law.illegible
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Antonyms
* legibleSynonyms
* dirty * foul * indecipherable * marked-up * unclear * undecipherable * unreadableSee also
* illegiblyillegitimate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- an illegitimate child
- an illegitimate inference
- an illegitimate word
- illegitimate''' union; '''illegitimate fertilization
- (Darwin)