Synonyms of the word

legitimate

• adj. In accordance with the law or established legal forms and requirements; lawful.
• adj. Conforming to known principles, or established or accepted rules or standards; valid.
• adj. Authentic, real, genuine.
• adj. Lawfully begotten, i.e., born to a legally married couple.
• adj. Relating to hereditary rights.
• n. A person born to a legally married couple.
• v. To make legitimate, lawful, or valid; especially, to put in the position or state of a legitimate person…

allow

• v. (transitive) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
• v. (transitive) To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
• v. (transitive) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
• v. (transitive) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
• v. To not bar or obstruct.
• v. (intransitive) To acknowledge or concede.
• v. (transitive) To take into account by making an allowance.
• v. (transitive) To render physically possible.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
• v. (obsolete) To sanction; to invest; to entrust.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To like; to be suited or pleased with.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

authorised

• adj. Alternative spelling of authorized.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of authorise.

authorized

• adj. Explicitly allowed.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of authorize.

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

constituted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of constitute.

countenance

• n. Appearance, especially the features and expression of the face.
• n. Favour; support; encouragement.
• n. (obsolete) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
• n. calm facial expression, composure, self-control.
• v. (transitive) To tolerate, support, sanction, patronise or approve of something.

decriminalise

• v. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of decriminalize.

decriminalize

• v. (transitive) To change the laws so something is no longer a crime.

established

• v. simple past tense and past participle of establish.
• adj. Having been in existence for a long time and therefore recognized and generally accepted.
• adj. Of a religion, church etc.: formally recognized by a state as being official within that area.
• adj. (Model, procedure, disease) Explicitly defined, described or recognized as a reference.

justify

• v. (transitive) To provide an acceptable explanation for.
• v. (transitive) To be a good, acceptable reason for; warrant.
• v. (transitive) To arrange (text) on a page or a computer screen such that the left and right ends of all…
• v. (transitive) To absolve, and declare to be free of blame or sin.
• v. To prove; to ratify; to confirm.
• v. (law) To show (a person) to have had a sufficient legal reason for an act that has been made the subject…
• v. (law) To qualify (oneself) as a surety by taking oath to the ownership of sufficient property.

lawful

• adj. Conforming to, or recognised by law or rules.

left-handed

• adj. Using one's left hand in preference to, or more skillfully than, one's right.
• adj. Intended to be worn on, or used by, the left hand.
• adj. Turning or spiraling from right to left; anticlockwise.
• adj. Awkward or maladroit.
• adj. Insincere or malicious.
• n. Left-handed people, taken as a whole.

legal

• adj. Relating to the law or to lawyers.
• adj. Having its basis in the law.
• adj. Being allowed or prescribed by law.
• adj. (informal) Above the age of consent or the legal drinking age.
• n. (uncountable, informal) The legal department of a company.
• n. (uncountable, US, Canada) Paper in sheets 8½ in × 14 in (215.9 mm × 355.6 mm).
• n. (countable) A spy who is attached to, and ostensibly employed by, an embassy, military outpost, etc.

legalise

• v. To make legal or permit under law. Either by decriminalising something that has been illegal or by specifically…

legalize

• v. (American) Alternative spelling of legalise.

legitimatize

• v. (transitive) To make legitimate.
• v. (transitive) To legalize.

legitimise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of legitimize.

legitimize

• v. (transitive) To make legitimate.

let

• v. (transitive) To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to).
• v. (transitive) To leave.
• v. (transitive) To allow the release of (a fluid).
• v. (transitive) To allow possession of (a property etc.) in exchange for rent.
• v. (transitive) To give, grant, or assign, as a work, privilege, or contract; often with out.
• v. (transitive) Used to introduce an imperative in the first or third person.
• v. (transitive, obsolete except with know) To cause (+ bare infinitive).
• n. The allowing of possession of a property etc. in exchange for rent.
• v. (archaic) To hinder, prevent, impede, hamper, cumber; to obstruct (someone or something).
• v. (obsolete) To prevent someone from doing something; also to prevent something from happening.
• v. (obsolete) To tarry or delay.
• n. An obstacle or hindrance.
• n. (tennis) The hindrance caused by the net during serve, only if the ball falls legally.

licit

• adj. Not forbidden by formal or informal rules.
• adj. (law) Explicitly established or constituted by law.

logical

• adj. (not comparable) In agreement with the principles of logic.
• adj. Reasonable.
• adj. (not comparable) Of or pertaining to logic.
• adj. (computing) Non-physical or conceptual yet underpinned by something physical or actual.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

morganatic

• adj. Designating a marriage (or the wife involved) between a man of higher rank and a woman of lower rank,…

permit

• v. (now archaic, rare) To hand over, resign (something to someone).
• v. (transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
• v. (transitive) To allow (someone) to do something; to give permission to.
• v. (intransitive) To allow for, to make something possible.
• v. (intransitive) To allow, to admit (of).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To grant formal authorization for (something).
• v. (transitive, pronounced like noun) To attempt to obtain or succeed in obtaining formal authorization for…
• n. (obsolete) Formal permission.
• n. An artifact or document rendering something allowed or legal.
• n. A pompano of the species Trachinotus falcatus.

rightful

• adj. By right, by law.

true

• adj. (of a statement) Conforming to the actual state of reality or fact; factually correct.
• adj. Conforming to a rule or pattern; exact; accurate.
• adj. (logic) Of the state in Boolean logic that indicates an affirmative or positive result.
• adj. Loyal, faithful.
• adj. Genuine.
• adj. Legitimate.
• adj. (of an aim or missile in archery, shooting, golf, etc.) Accurate; following a path toward the target.
• adj. (chiefly probability) Fair, unbiased, not loaded.
• adv. (of shooting, throwing etc) Accurately.
• n. Truth.
• n. The state of being in alignment.
• v. To straighten.
• v. To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust.

valid

• adj. Well grounded or justifiable, pertinent.
• adj. Acceptable, proper or correct.
• adj. Related to the current topic, or presented within context, relevant.
• adj. (logic) Of a formula or system: such that it evaluates to true regardless of the input values.
• adj. (logic) Of an argument: whose conclusion is always true whenever its premises are true.

vindicate

• v. To clear from an accusation, suspicion or criticism.
• v. To justify by providing evidence.
• v. To maintain or defend a cause against opposition.
• v. To provide justification for.
• v. To lay claim to; to assert a right to; to claim.
• v. (obsolete) To liberate; to set free; to deliver.
• v. (obsolete) To avenge; to punish.