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Definitions for Bastard

[1] a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.
[2] Slang . a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person: Some bastard slashed the tires on my car. a person, especially a man: The poor bastard broke his leg.
[3] something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual.
[4] bastard culverin.
[5] illegitimate in birth.
[6] spurious; not genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic.
[7] of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz; bastard mahogany.
[8] having the appearance of; resembling in some degree: a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds.
[9] Printing . (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found.
[10] informal , offensive an obnoxious or despicable person
[11] informal , often jocular a person, esp a man lucky bastard
[12] informal something extremely difficult or unpleasant that job is a real bastard
[13] old-fashioned , or offensive a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate baby, child, or adult
[14] something irregular, abnormal, or inferior
[15] a hybrid, esp an accidental or inferior one
[16] old-fashioned , or offensive illegitimate by birth
[17] irregular, abnormal, or inferior in shape, size, or appearance
[18] resembling a specified thing, but not actually being such a bastard cedar
[19] counterfeit; spurious

Words related to Bastard

natural, irregular, phony, fake, imperfect, sham, mongrel, inferior, counterfeit, adulterated, impure, misbegotten, mixed, spurious, baseborn, suppositious, false, ungenuine, idiot

Words nearby Bastard

bassoon, basswood, bast, bast fiber, basta, bastard, bastard amber, bastard culverin, bastard cut, bastard eigne, bastard file

Origin of Bastard

1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French bastard, Medieval Latin bastardus (from 11th century), perhaps < Germanic (Ingvaeonic) *bāst-, presumed variant of *bōst- marriage + Old French -ard -ard, taken as signifying the offspring of a polygynous marriage to a woman of lower status, a pagan tradition not sanctioned by the church; compare Old Frisian bost marriage < Germanic *bandstu-, a noun derivative of Indo-European *bhendh- bind; the traditional explanation of Old French bastard as derivative of fils de bast “child of a packsaddle” is doubtful on chronological and geographical grounds

Word origin for Bastard

C13: from Old French bastart , perhaps from bast in the phrase fils de bast son of the packsaddle (that is, of an unlawful and not the marriage bed), from Medieval Latin bastum packsaddle, of uncertain origin

Synonyms for Bastard

counterfeit, fake, imperfect, inferior, irregular, mongrel, natural, phony, sham, adulterated, baseborn, false, impure, misbegotten, misborn, mixed, spurious, suppositious, ungenuine