blackguard

1. 1.

   someone who is morally reprehensible

   “you dirty dog”

   Synonymscadbounderdoghoundheel

   Broadervillain

   Narrowerperisher

Other forms of blackguard

plural

blackguards·

past tense

blackguarded·

present participle

blackguarding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blackguard

What does blackguard mean?

blackguard means "subject to laughter or ridicule". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blackguard?

blackguard has 3 syllables and divides as black-gu-ard under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for blackguard?

Close synonyms include ridicule, roast, guy, laugh at, jest at. 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 blackguard a common word?

blackguard is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.