Word.ws English Dictionary

bastardness

bastardness noun: the condition or quality of a bastard.

Noun

bastardness (uncountable)

  1. The condition or quality of a bastard
    • “I've come up with a new argument regarding Man's inherent bastardness,” said Alex. He lay on the hotel bed, his hands propped behind his head.2014, Heather Hopkins, The Weapon - Page 65

Origin of bastardness

From bastard + -ness.

Questions about bastardness

What does bastardness mean?
Bastardness means the condition or quality of a bastard.
What part of speech is bastardness?
Bastardness is a noun.

Words near bastardness in the dictionary

  1. bastardling
  2. bastardlings
  3. bastardly
  4. bastardly gullion
  5. bastardly gullions
  6. bastardness
  7. Bastardo
  8. Bastardos
  9. bastardous
  10. bastardry
  11. bastards

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bastardness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bastardness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bastardness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.