intestate

1. 1.

   having made no legally valid will before death or not disposed of by a legal will

   “he died intestate”

   “intestate property”

   Antonymstestate

   law

Questions about intestate

What does intestate mean?

intestate means "having made no legally valid will before death or not disposed of by a legal will".

How many syllables are in intestate?

intestate has 3 syllables: in-te-state. The stress falls on "in".

What is the opposite of intestate?

The recorded antonyms are testate.

Is intestate a common word?

intestate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.