Difference between Fatherless and Illegitimate

What is the difference between Fatherless and Illegitimate?

Fatherless as an adjective is without a living father. while Illegitimate as an adjective is illegal; against the law.

Fatherless

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Without a living father.

Example sentence: Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

Illegitimate

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Illegal; against the law.Born to unmarried parents.Illogical; incorrectly deduced.

Example sentence: I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.

We hope you now know whether to use Fatherless or Illegitimate in your sentence.

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