<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.</li><li>Slang: a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person: Some bastard slashed the tires on my car.</li><li>A person, especially a man: The poor bastard broke his leg.</li><li>Something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual.</li><li>Bastard culverin.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Illegitimate in birth.</li><li>Spurious; not genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic.</li><li>Synonyms: phony, irregular, sham, imperfect, imitation, fake.</li><li>Of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz; bastard mahogany.</li><li>Having the appearance of; resembling in some degree: a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds.</li><li>Printing: (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found.</li></ul>