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By meaning 1
allowed by the rules:

Examples

6 sentences

  1. That seems legit to me.

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  2. That was legit.

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  3. This sounds totally legit.

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Meaning

5 senses

  1. (informal)Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid.

    legal, rechtmäßig

  2. Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid.

    (informal)Not using cheats.

    Did you see how fast that person was moving? I don't think they're legit.

  3. (broadly)Genuine, actual, literal or honest.

More meanings 2

  1. (slang)Genuinely good and possessing all the required or expected qualities; the real deal.

    I checked out her portfolio. She's legit.

  2. (slang)Cool by virtue of being genuine.

Origin

Clipping of legitimate or legitimately.

Clipping of legitimate or legitimately.

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Forms

more legit, most legit
Comparativemore legit Lesson
Superlativemost legit Lesson

regular

Synonyms

27 synonyms
(informal)Legitimate:acceptableA2legitimateB2trueA1validB2allowablepermissiblelevefullicitrightfulrulable
Genuine, actual, literal or honest:realA1actualB2bona fideC2genuineB2unadulteratedC2veritableC2pukkaauthenticlubishsterlinguncounterfeitedundissembledunfakedunfeigned
(slang)Genuinely good and possessing all the required or…:genuine articlereal McCoy

Word family

2 related words
Derivedlegitlylegitness

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
legislativeB2legislatorB2legislatureB2legitimacylegitimateB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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