legitimate

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

le·git·im·ate [legitimate legitimates legitimated legitimating] BrE [lɪˈdʒɪtɪmət] NAmE [lɪˈdʒɪtɪmət] adjective
1. for which there is a fair and acceptable reason
Syn: ↑valid, Syn: ↑justifiable
•a legitimate grievance
•It seemed a perfectly legitimate question.
•Politicians are legitimate targets for satire.
2. allowed and acceptable according to the law
Syn: ↑legal
•the legitimate government of the country
•Is his business strictly legitimate?
Opp: ↑illegitimate
3. (of a child)born when its parents are legally married to each other
Opp: ↑illegitimate
Derived Words: ↑legitimacy ▪ ↑legitimately

Word Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘born of parents lawfully married to each other’): from medieval Latin legitimatus ‘made legal’, from the verb legitimare, from Latin legitimus ‘lawful’, from lex, leg- ‘law’.

Example Bank:
•Parents' concerns about the disease are quite legitimate.
•People have a legitimate expectation that their politicians should be honest.
•The court ruled that celebrities' children were not a legitimate target for press intrusion.
•The legitimate government was reinstated after the uprising.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  lawful, licit, logical, legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimatize, legitimatise
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  illegitimate, outlaw, criminalize, criminalise, illegalize, illegalise