legitimatise

Other forms of legitimatise

past tense

legitimatised·

present participle

legitimatising·

third person

legitimatises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about legitimatise

What does legitimatise mean?

legitimatise means "make legal".

How many syllables are in legitimatise?

legitimatise has 5 syllables: le-gi-ti-ma-tise. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for legitimatise?

Close synonyms include legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize. 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.

Is legitimatise a common word?

legitimatise 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.