Thesaurus:bastard

Thesaurus

bastard

English

Noun

Sense: person born to unmarried parents

Synonyms

• bantling (archaic)
• bastard
• bastardling
• bastid (slang)
• batchelor's son (obsolete)
• by-blow
• fruit of adultery
• haramzada (India, Pakistan)
• illegitimate    [⇒ thesaurus]
• love child (euphemism)
• mamzer
• misbegotten (obsolete)
• natural child
• nullius filius (legal)
• outside child (Bermuda)
• slink (obsolete)
• whoreson (archaic)

Antonyms

• legitimate

Hyponyms

• Abishag (thieves' cant)
• filia populae (legal)
• filius populi (legal)
• son of a whore
• whoreson

Hypernyms

• child    [⇒ thesaurus]
• person    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• adulterine (rare)
• bar sinister
• baton sinister
• bend sinister
• born in the vestry

See also

• Thesaurus:illegitimate
• Thesaurus:git
• Thesaurus:jerk

Further reading

• “925. undueness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “bastard” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.