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legitimate

of marriages and offspring; recognized as lawful

in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles; "legitimate advertising practices"

based on known statements or events or conditions; "rain was a logical expectation, given the time of year"

make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child"

show or affirm to be just and legitimate

Synonyms:

• acceptable,
• actionable,
• actor-proof,
• admissible,
• all-star,
• allowable,
• applicable,
• authentic,
• authoritative,
• authorize,
• authorized,
• ballet,
• balletic,
• binding,
• bona fide,
• by law,
• candid,
• card-carrying,
• certify,
• cinematic,
• cinematographic,
• cogent,
• competent,
• condonable,
• consistent,
• constitutional,
• correct,
• credible,
• de jure,
• defensible,
• dinkum,
• dispensable,
• dramatic,
• dramatical,
• dramaturgic,
• excusable,
• exemptible,
• expiable,
• fair,
• film,
• filmic,
• following the letter,
• forgivable,
• genuine,
• good,
• ham,
• hammy,
• histrionic,
• honest,
• honest-to-God,
• inartificial,
• inoffensive,
• judicial,
• juridical,
• just,
• justiciable,
• justifiable,
• kosher,
• lawful,
• lawmaking,
• legal,
• legalize,
• legislative,
• legit,
• legitimatize,
• legitimize,
• legitimized,
• licit,
• lifelike,
• literal,
• logical,
• melodramatic,
• milked,
• monodramatic,
• movie,
• natural,
• naturalistic,
• operatic,
• original,
• overacted,
• overplayed,
• pardonable,
• permissible,
• plausible,
• proper,
• pure,
• rational,
• real,
• realistic,
• reasonable,
• remissible,
• right,
• rightful,
• sanction,
• sanctionable,
• sanctioned,
• sane,
• scenic,
• self-consistent,
• sensible,
• simon-pure,
• simple,
• sincere,
• solid,
• sound,
• spectacular,
• stagelike,
• stageworthy,
• stagy,
• starstruck,
• statutory,
• stellar,
• sterling,
• substantial,
• sufficient,
• sure-enough,
• theaterlike,
• theatrical,
• thespian,
• thrown away,
• true,
• true to life,
• true to nature,
• true to reality,
• unadulterated,
• unaffected,
• unassumed,
• unassuming,
• uncolored,
• unconcocted,
• uncopied,
• uncounterfeited,
• underacted,
• underplayed,
• undisguised,
• undisguising,
• undistorted,
• unexaggerated,
• unfabricated,
• unfanciful,
• unfeigned,
• unfeigning,
• unfictitious,
• unflattering,
• unimagined,
• unimitated,
• uninvented,
• unobjectionable,
• unpretended,
• unpretending,
• unqualified,
• unromantic,
• unsimulated,
• unspecious,
• unsynthetic,
• unvarnished,
• valid,
• validate,
• vaudevillian,
• venial,
• verbal,
• verbatim,
• veridical,
• verisimilar,
• vindicable,
• warrant,
• warrantable,
• weighty,
• well-argued,
• well-founded,
• well-grounded,
• wholesome,
• within the law,
• word-for-word