bastard
Child without marriage
Bastard originally meant a child born to unmarried parents—once a serious legal and social stigma.
That meaning persists but has faded.
More commonly, bastard is an insult for an unpleasant or contemptible man: He's a real bastard.
It can also express grudging admiration: You lucky bastard.
And it describes something difficult or unpleasant: That test was a bastard.
The word is milder than many vulgar insults—roughly equivalent to jerk in force.
Not authorized or recognized
- born out of wedlockHaving unmarried parents
- natural childChild of unmarried parents
- love childChild of unmarried parents
- extramaritalOutside the marriage bond
paternity · unwed · nonmarital · fatherless · unrecognized · misbegotten · spurious · acknowledged
Crude insult or anatomy
- jerkAbrupt pulling motion
- scoundrelDishonest, unscrupulous person
- son of a bitchVulgar term for scoundrel
- prickPierce lightly with point
creep · lowlife · wretch · scumbag · villain · rogue · cad · heel
Thing of mixed parentage
- mongrelDog of mixed ancestry
- crossbreedMixed-lineage organism
- mixedBlended from varied elements
- impureNot wholly clean
adulterated · corrupted · debased · grafted · amalgamation · composite · fusion · mule
Lacking sufficient resources
- unfortunateDeserving of pity
- unluckyProne to misfortune
- pitiableDeserving sympathetic sorrow
- wretchedExtremely unhappy or unfortunate
miserable · pathetic · sorry · hapless · ill-fated · pitiful · luckless
Durable and strong
- difficultRequiring much effort
- trickyDifficult to handle
- gruelingExtremely tiring and demanding
- punishingExtremely taxing or severe
unforgiving · brutal · harsh · nasty · miserable · hellish · formidable · relentless
illegitimate
Not authorized or recognized
- born out of wedlockHaving unmarried parents
- natural childChild of unmarried parents
- love childChild of unmarried parents
extramarital · paternity · unwed · nonmarital · fatherless · unrecognized · misbegotten · spurious · acknowledged · legitimacy
asshole
Crude insult or anatomy
- jerkAbrupt pulling motion
- scoundrelDishonest, unscrupulous person
- son of a bitchVulgar term for scoundrel
prick · creep · lowlife · wretch · scumbag · villain · rogue · cad · heel · rat
hybrid
Thing of mixed parentage
- mongrelDog of mixed ancestry
- crossbreedMixed-lineage organism
- mixedBlended from varied elements
impure · adulterated · corrupted · debased · grafted · amalgamation · composite · fusion · mule · chimera
poor
Lacking sufficient resources
- unfortunateDeserving of pity
- unluckyProne to misfortune
- pitiableDeserving sympathetic sorrow
wretched · miserable · pathetic · sorry · hapless · ill-fated · pitiful · luckless
tough
Durable and strong
punishing · unforgiving · brutal · harsh · nasty · miserable · hellish · formidable · relentless · demanding
- royal successionthrone, succession, line of succession, order of succession, succession line
- illegitimacyillegitimate child, love child, illegitimate, born out of wedlock
- King LearLear, Cordelia, Regan, Edgar, Edmund
- legal statusesmarried, single, divorced, citizen, widowed
- successionheir apparent, heir presumptive, line of succession, primogeniture, successor
- cursescurse, curses, hex, hexes, jinx
bastardlegitimate
Conforming to accepted standards
legitimate child · trueborn · heir apparent · heir · pureblood
- rat bastardVile, treacherous person
- bastard childChild of unmarried parents
- dirty bastards
- mean bastards
- Ol' Dirty Bastard
- bastard swordMedieval blade, flexible grip
bastards, bastardize, bastardized, bastardy, bastardise, bastardizes, bastardizing, bastardised, bastardises