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Misbegotten vs Illgotten - What's the difference?

misbegotten | illgotten |

misbegotten

English

Noun

  • .
  • circumstances.
  • * 1973 , (Philippa Foot), “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays , edited by : , ISBN 0385033443, page 161:
    • By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten ”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (of a person) .
  • (by extension, figuratively) .
  • * 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “ Cabin Boy” in :
    • Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.

    • See also

    * * *

    References

    * (OED)'' (3rd ed., June 2002), “ misbegotten, ''n. ''and'' adj. ” English adjectives ending in -en

    illgotten

    Not English

    Illgotten has no English definition. It may be misspelled.

    English words similar to 'illgotten':

    illocution, illighten