bastardly

Questions about bastardly

What does bastardly mean?

bastardly means "born out of wedlock". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bastardly?

bastardly has 3 syllables: ba-stard-ly. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for bastardly?

Close synonyms include misbegot, misbegotten, spurious, mean. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bastardly a common word?

bastardly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.