Legitimate vs Legit - What's the difference?
legitimate | legit |
In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.
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Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
* (rfdate) Macaulay
Authentic, real, genuine.
(senseid)Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
Relating to hereditary rights.
To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person before the law, by legal means.
(informal) legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules
(by extension) genuine, actual, literal or honest, of a thing or person
(slang) cool by virtue of being genuine (considered to be the real deal)
Legit is a antonym of legitimate.
As adjectives the difference between legitimate and legit
is that legitimate is in accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful while legit is legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules.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 fromAdjective
(en adjective)- legitimate''' reasoning; a '''legitimate standard or method
- Tillotson still keeps his place as a legitimate English classic.
- legitimate''' poems of Chaucer; '''legitimate inscriptions