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Legitimate vs Cromulent - What's the difference?

legitimate | cromulent |

As adjectives the difference between legitimate and cromulent

is that legitimate is in accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful while cromulent is (humorous) fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.

As a verb legitimate

is to make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.

legitimate

English

Etymology 1

From . Originally "lawfully begotten," from (etyl) legitimer and directly from

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.
  • *
  • Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
    • legitimate''' reasoning; a '''legitimate standard or method
  • * (rfdate) Macaulay
    • Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic.
  • Authentic, real, genuine.
    • legitimate''' poems of Chaucer; '''legitimate inscriptions
  • (senseid)Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
  • Relating to hereditary rights.
    • Synonyms
    (checksyns) * lawful, legal, rightful
    Antonyms
    * illegitimate, false

    Etymology 2

    Legal Latin, from legitimatus, past participle of (legitimo). See above for antecedents

    Verb

    (legitimat)
  • To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
    • Usage notes
    * Forms of (legitimize) are about twice as common as forms of the verb legitimate in the US. * Forms of legitimate are somewhat more common than the forms of the verbs (legitimize) and (legitimise) in the UK combined.
    Synonyms
    * legitimize
    Derived terms
    * delegitimate

    External links

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    cromulent

    English

    (Wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (humorous) Fine, acceptable or normal; excellent, realistic, legitimate or authentic.
  • * {{quote-video
    • , date = 1996-02-18 , people = Matt Groening et al. , episode = , title = , season = 7 , number = 16 , section = production code 3F13 , passage = Mrs. Krabappel:'' "Embiggens"? I never heard that word before moving to Springfield.
    ''Ms. Hoover:'' I don't know why, it's a perfectly cromulent''' word.

    ''Principal Skinner:'' He's embiggened that role with his ' cromulent performance. }}

  • * {{quote-song
    • , date = 2005-08-27 , composer = (MC Frontalot) , title = Nerdcore Rising , album = (Nerdcore Rising) , url = http://last.fm/music/MC+Frontalot/_/Nerdcore+Rising , passage = We consider the possibleness of this not overstated.
    And I know that "possibleness" is not a cromulent word;
    every syllable injected is intended to be the one you heard
    (an absurd juxtaposition of mission and goal). }}
  • * {{quote-news
    • , date = 2006-04-10 , title = Obituaries and In Memoriams: Benjamin Sidney Linton , newspaper = Charlotte Observer , passage = He had a boundless passion for music and entertained many with his beautiful voice and perfectly cromulent sense of humor. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2007-10-26 , first = Alan M. , last = Polansky , title = Observed Confidence Levels , publisher = Chapman & Hall , location = Boca Raton , isbn = 9781584888024 , ol = 12313827M , page = 216 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=Orh1ItRBVcEC&pg=PA216&dq=cromulent , passage = There are certainly other cromulent techniques which may perform well for certain models and assumptions. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 2008 , first = David A. , last = Karp , title = Windows Vista Annoyances , publisher = , location = Sebastopol , isbn = 9780596527624 , ol = 10781059M , page = 505 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=5SbK_xPgnK8C&pg=PA505&dq=cromulent , passage = Of course, you may encounter a new program that doesn't work reliably with UNC paths, and this is a perfectly cromulent workaround. }}
  • * {{quote-book
    • , date = 2009-05-15 , first = Bryan , last = O'Sullivan , coauthors = Stewart, Don; Goerzen, John , title = Real World Haskell , publisher = , location = Sebastopol , isbn = 9780596514983 , ol = 22647856M , page = 86 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=nh0okI1a1sQC&pg=PA86&dq=cromulent , passage = How well does this function work? For positive integers, it's perfectly cromulent . }}

    See also

    * embiggen English terms derived from The Simpsons