bastard

bastard is a 7-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, adjective, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 14 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.
2. noun. An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that / already had several boilings.
3. noun. A large size of mold, in which sugar is drained.
4. noun. A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.
5. noun. A writing paper of a particular size. See Paper.
6. adjective. Begotten and born out of lawful matrimony; illegitimate. See Bastard, n., note.
7. noun. Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so.
8. noun. Of an unusual make or proportion; as, a bastard musket; a bastard culverin.
9. noun. Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book.
10. transitive verb. To bastardize.
11. noun. derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin

    "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic"

    Synonyms: mongrel

12. noun. insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous

    Synonyms: asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, motherfucker, prick, shit, sob, whoreson

13. noun. the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents

    Synonyms: illegitimate, whoreson

14. adjective. fraudulent; having a misleading appearance

    Synonyms: bogus, fake, phoney, phony

Synonyms

mongrel, asshole, cocksucker, dickhead, motherfucker, prick, shit, sob, whoreson, illegitimate, bogus, fake, phoney, phony

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bastard:

batards, tabards

Common word forms

bastards, bastardly, bastardise, bastardize

Words from these letters

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