Bastard

Meaning of Bastard

noun
  1. an unpleasant or despicable person.
    he lied to me, the bastard!
  2. a person born of parents not married to each other.
adjective
  1. (of a thing) no longer in its pure or original form; debased.
    a bastard Darwinism
  2. born of parents not married to each other; illegitimate.
    a bastard child

Middle English: via Old French from medieval Latin bastardus, probably from bastum ‘packsaddle’; compare with Old French fils de bast, ‘packsaddle son’ (i.e. the son of a mule driver who uses a packsaddle for a pillow and is gone by morning).

Information about Bastard

Hyphenation of Bastard

Bas-tard

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • Bastard is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Bastard synonyms

Meaning bogus:

bogus, fake, phony, phoney

Meaning asshole:

asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, motherfucker, prick, whoreson

Meaning by-blow:

illegitimate, whoreson

Meaning mongrel:

mongrel

Meaning a dishonest or unscrupulous person; a rogue:

scoundrel

Meaning (in a film, novel, or play) a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot:

villain

Meaning a dishonest or unprincipled man:

rogue

Meaning a mischievous or cheeky person, especially a child or man (typically used in an affectionate way):

rascal

Meaning a savagely violent person or animal:

brute

Meaning a person without human attributes or civilizing influences, especially someone who is very cruel, violent, or repulsive:

animal

Meaning a deceitful or treacherous person:

weasel

Meaning a treacherous or deceitful person:

snake

Meaning an inhumanly cruel or wicked person:

monster

Meaning a cruel or terrifying person:

ogre

Meaning a despicable or contemptible person:

wretch

Meaning (in Christian and Jewish belief) the supreme spirit of evil; Satan:

devil

Meaning an unprincipled person:

reprobate

Meaning a person who behaves illegally or dishonestly; an offender:

wrongdoer

Meaning a rogue:

picaro

Meaning a contemptible or objectionable person:

scumbag

Meaning a greedy, dirty, or unpleasant person:

pig

Meaning a pig:

swine

Meaning either of two small wingless parasitic insects that live on the skin of mammals and birds:

louse

Meaning a dog of a breed used for hunting, especially one able to track by scent:

hound

Meaning a contemptible man:

cur

Meaning a despicable person, especially a man who has been deceitful or disloyal:

rat

Meaning an animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one:

beast

Meaning a cat-sized American mammal of the weasel family, with distinctive black-and-white striped fur. When threatened it squirts a fine spray of foul-smelling irritant liquid from its anal glands towards it:

skunk

Meaning an unpleasant or disliked person:

ratbag

Meaning an unpleasant or contemptible person:

git, fink

Meaning a contemptible or worthless person:

toerag

Meaning a person who is regarded with contempt, irritation, or pity:

blighter

Meaning a rascal:

spalpeen

Meaning an untrustworthy or cunning person:

sleeveen

Meaning a person's anus:

butthole, arsehole

Meaning a person, especially a child, who is mischievous in a likeable or amusing way:

scamp

Meaning a wild or half-domesticated dog with a sandy-coloured coat, found in Australia:

dingo

Meaning a man who behaves dishonourably, especially towards a woman:

cad

Meaning the back part of the human foot below the ankle:

heel

Meaning a dishonourable or despicable man:

dastard

Meaning a dishonest or unscrupulous man:

knave

Meaning a person or thing that smells very bad:

stinker

Meaning a cruel, mean, or unkind person:

rotter

Meaning a dishonourable man:

bounder

Meaning a man who behaves in a dishonourable or contemptible way:

blackguard

Meaning a person who has done something wrong or unlawful:

miscreant

Meaning a man or boy acting as an attendant or servant:

varlet

Meaning a person who wanders from place to place without a home or job:

vagabond

Meaning a mischievous person:

rapscallion

Meaning a contemptible or stupid person (often used as a general term of abuse):

fucker

Meaning a contemptible person (used as a general term of abuse):

wanker

Meaning a person or thing that tosses something:

tosser

Meaning the surface of the ground, with the grass growing on it; turf:

sod

Meaning used as a term of abuse, typically for a man:

bugger

Meaning an act or instance of having sex:

fuck

Meaning a woman in relation to her child or children:

mother

Meaning of mixed character; composed of different elements:

hybrid

Meaning mix (metals) to make an alloy:

alloyed

Meaning render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance:

adulterated

Meaning mixed with foreign matter; adulterated:

impure

Meaning lower in rank, status, or quality:

inferior

Meaning (of a child) illegitimate:

natural

Anagrams of Bastard

tabards

Words that rhyme with Bastard

Ultratard, batard, petard, retard, tetard, Semitard, dynamitard, ritard, unitard, aquitard, Lentard, Cotard, dotard, leotard, abastard, bastard, bustard, costard, custard, dastard, gustard, mustard, dottard, pittard, Mixtard

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