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adj
Having been born out of marriage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: illegitimate, base, baseborn, base born, bastardly, extramarital, misbegotten, nameless, natural, spurious, unwanted, degenerate
Antonyms: none provided
adj
Of no use or purpose; useless; worthless.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: bastardly, blown, cacky, chaffy, cocking, crapalicious, cruddy, cullionly, draffish, draffy, dreckish, drecky, duffing, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, for the birds, fucking, garbagey, good-for-naught, good-for-nothing, goodless, ineffectual, invaluable, jabberwocky, junky, mouldy, mucid, naughty, no-account, no good / no-good, nonvaluable, not worth a damn, not worth a dime, not worth a plug nickel, not worth a brass farthing, not worth a cent, not worth a cress, not worth a curse, not worth a Continental, not worth a farthing, not worth hell room, not worth a nickel, not worth a penny, not worth salt, not worth a whistle, nought, of no value, pissass, punk, putid, rubbishly, rubbishy, sixpenny, scabbed, screwy, scummy, shand, shit, shitey, shitstained, shitty-ass, sorry-ass, strawlike, suckworthy, tenth-rate, toshy, trinkety, triobolar, tripy, two-bit, unappreciated, unvaluable, vain, valueless, worthless, worth nothing, wutless
Antonyms: none provided
adv
In a bastardly manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
of no value or worth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: mean
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
born out of wedlock- E.A.Freeman
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: misbegot, misbegotten, spurious
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology tree English bastard Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English bastardly From bastard + -ly.
Etymology tree English bastard Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English bastardly From bastard + -ly.
Across languages
3 source translations are retained for this English entry.
