ill-gotten

1. 1.

   obtained illegally or by improper means

   “dirty money”

   “ill-gotten gains”

   Synonymsdirty

   Similarillegal

Questions about ill-gotten

What does ill-gotten mean?

ill-gotten means "obtained illegally or by improper means".

How many syllables are in ill-gotten?

ill-gotten has 3 syllables and divides as ill--got-ten under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ill-gotten?

Close synonyms include dirty. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.