bastard: Meaning and Definition of

bas•tard

1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.
2. Some bastard slashed the tires on my car.
1. a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person:Some bastard slashed the tires on my car.
2. a person, esp. a man:The poor bastard broke his leg.
3. something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual.
4. See

1. illegitimate in birth.
2. spurious; not genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic.
3. of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz; bastard mahogany.
4. having the appearance of; resembling in some degree: a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds.
5. (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found.