illegitimate

/ˌɪləˈdʒɪtəmət/
VCE 📚 12326 1 托福
A person who is illegitimate was born of parents who were not married to each other. 私生的

adjective [原级] 私生的;非法的;不合理的

They discovered he had an illegitimate child. 他们发现他有一个私生子。

verb [vt. 及物动词] vt. 认做私生子;认为违法

He realized that, otherwise, the election would have been dismissed as illegitimate by the international community. 他意识到,不这样的话,选举就会被国际社会以不合法为由而不予承认。

noun [专属名词] 非嫡出子;庶子

Most of them are illegitimate. 这些孩子基本上都是私生子。

后缀: ate 【verb/adjective】 表示使成为或具有某种特性的 - indicating to make or become 原词: illegitimate 是通过后缀 【ate】 构成的派生词
il(不) + legitimate(合法的) → 不合法的
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