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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

infeliz

Pronunciation / Transliteration: in-fe-liz

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bastard/ˈbæstərd/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Ele é um grande filho da puta."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An unpleasant, despicable, or thoroughly obnoxious person.

    "He acted like a total bastard when he refused to help his team."
  2. 2

    A colloquial expression used to refer to a man or boy, sometimes affectionately or with pity.

    "The poor bastard lost all his savings in the scam."
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Synonyms (3)
Antonyms & Contrasting Words (1)

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old French 'bastard', likely originating from Germanic roots combined with the pejorative suffix '-ard'. Historically denoting a child born to unmarried parents, the term evolved to broadly signify an unpleasant, despicable, or contemptible person, parallel in vulgarity to the Portuguese expression 'filho da puta'.

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