Unlawful vs Illegitimate - What's the difference?
unlawful | illegitimate |
Prohibited]]; not permitted by law (either [[civil law, civil or criminal law; see illegal).
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 unlawful and illegitimate
is that unlawful is prohibited]]; not permitted by law (either [[civil law|civil or criminal law; see illegal) while illegitimate is illegal; against the law.unlawful
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He was charged with unlawful use of a car.
illegitimate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- an illegitimate child
- an illegitimate inference
- an illegitimate word
- illegitimate''' union; '''illegitimate fertilization
- (Darwin)