bastardized

The word “bastardized” has 3 syllables: bas-tard-ized

It's pronounced as /ˈbæs.tɚ.daɪzd/


What is synonym and antonym for bastardized?

In the thesaurus, “bastardized” has 66 synonyms and 31 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for bastardized along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for bastardized

  • abased
  • adulterate
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • bestialize
  • blemished
  • brutalize
  • cankered
  • cheapened
  • contaminated
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • damaged
  • debased
  • debauch
  • debauched
  • declare illegitimate
  • defaced
  • defiled
  • degrade
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralize
  • demoralized
  • deprave
  • depraved
  • depreciated
  • descended
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • disgraced
  • dishonored
  • downgraded
  • flawed
  • harmed
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • hurt
  • impaired
  • lessened
  • marred
  • pervert
  • perverted
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • profaned
  • prostituted
  • ruined
  • shamed
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stained
  • subverted
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • thinned
  • took down
  • vitiate
  • vitiated
  • warp
  • warped
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • wrecked

Antonyms for bastardized

  • ameliorated
  • amended
  • appreciate
  • bettered
  • clarified
  • clean
  • cleaned
  • cleanse
  • cleansed
  • dignified
  • elevated
  • enhanced
  • ennobled
  • enriched
  • exalted
  • honored
  • improve
  • improved
  • meliorated
  • moralize
  • perfected
  • praise
  • purified
  • purify
  • refined
  • respected
  • restored
  • straighten
  • upgrade
  • uplifted
  • value

Meanings of bastardized

  • verb
    1. To claim or demonstrate that someone is a bastard, or illegitimate.
    2. To reduce from a higher to a lower state, such as by removing refined elements or introducing debased elements; to debase.
    3. To beget out of wedlock.

Example Sentences

  • The story was completely bastardized in the film adaptation.
  • They bastardized the traditional dance to make it more "modern."
  • His accent sounded bastardized after years of living abroad.
  • The original melody was bastardized into a pop remix.
  • Some historians claim that the facts were bastardized for political reasons.

On this page you'll find 97 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to bastardized, such as: abased, adulterate, ameliorated, amended, appreciate, befouled, begrimed.

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Related Words

abased

  • abandoned
  • abashed
  • affronted
  • bad-mouthed
  • baneful
  • baseborn
  • bastard
  • bastardized
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • belittled
  • blemished
  • boorish
  • cankered
  • castigated
  • censured
  • chastened
  • cheapened
  • clinging
  • common
  • condemned
  • confounded
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • corrupted
  • counting on
  • cried down
  • criticized
  • damaged
  • damned
  • debased
  • debauched
  • decried
  • defaced
  • defamed
  • defenseless
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • deleterious
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • denounced
  • depraved
  • depreciated
  • descended
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • detracted
  • diluted
  • diminished
  • dirtied
  • discomfited
  • disconcerted
  • discounted
  • discountenanced
  • discredited
  • disgraced
  • dishonored
  • disparaged
  • dissolute
  • downgraded
  • embarrassed
  • evil
  • execrated
  • fazed
  • flagitious
  • flawed
  • flustered
  • fouled
  • harmed
  • humble
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • hurt
  • ignoble
  • illegitimate
  • immature
  • impaired
  • indigent
  • infamous
  • inferior
  • insulted
  • junior
  • knavish
  • lessened
  • lesser
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • loose
  • low
  • lower-class
  • lowered
  • lowly
  • maligned
  • marred
  • mean
  • mercenary
  • minimized
  • minor
  • miscreant
  • monstrous
  • mortified
  • nefarious
  • nonaristocratic
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • ordinary
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • plain
  • plebeian
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • poor
  • profaned
  • profligate
  • prostituted
  • put down
  • rattled
  • reliant
  • relying on
  • reprehended
  • reprobated
  • ridiculed
  • rotten
  • ruined
  • sank
  • secondary
  • shamed
  • slandered
  • smirched
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stained
  • subordinate
  • subverted
  • sunk
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • thinned
  • tied to apron strings
  • took down
  • under
  • under thumb
  • ungenteel
  • unsustaining
  • venal
  • villainous
  • vitiated
  • vulnerable
  • warped
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • wrecked
  • wrote off

darkened

  • abased
  • adumbrated
  • angered
  • aphotic
  • atramentous
  • bastardized
  • beclouded
  • bedimmed
  • befogged
  • begrimed
  • besmeared
  • besmirched
  • black
  • blacked out
  • blackened
  • blackish
  • bleared
  • blemished
  • blotted out
  • blurred
  • bristled
  • brooded
  • caliginous
  • camouflaged
  • cheapened
  • cheerless
  • cimmerian
  • cloaked
  • closed in
  • clouded
  • cloudy
  • colored
  • concealed
  • corrupted
  • covered
  • crepuscular
  • curtained
  • dark
  • darkish
  • darkling
  • darksome
  • debased
  • debauched
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • depraved
  • dim
  • dimmed
  • dingy
  • dirtied
  • dirty
  • discolored
  • discredited
  • disgraced
  • disguised
  • dishonored
  • dislimned
  • dismal
  • distorted
  • drab
  • dreary
  • dull
  • dulled
  • dun
  • dusk
  • dusked
  • dusky
  • eclipsed
  • faded
  • faint
  • filmy
  • filthy
  • fogged
  • foggy
  • foul
  • fouled
  • frosty
  • frowned
  • fuliginous
  • fumed
  • fuzzy
  • glared
  • gloomed
  • gloomy
  • glowered
  • glowering
  • gray
  • grey
  • grubby
  • hazed
  • hazy
  • hid
  • ill-lighted
  • impenetrable
  • indistinct
  • inky
  • intimidated
  • lackluster
  • leaden
  • lightless
  • loured
  • lowered
  • lowering
  • lurid
  • lusterless
  • marred
  • masked
  • menaced
  • misted
  • misty
  • moonless
  • moped
  • mucky
  • muddied
  • muddy
  • murky
  • nasty
  • nebulous
  • nontranslucent
  • nontransparent
  • nubilous
  • obfuscated
  • obfuscous
  • obliterated
  • obscure
  • obscured
  • opaque
  • overcast
  • overclouded
  • overshadowed
  • pale
  • perverted
  • petted
  • pitch-black
  • pitch-dark
  • pitchy
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • pouted
  • raged
  • rayless
  • roily
  • sad
  • sank
  • scowled
  • screened
  • shaded
  • shadowed
  • shadowlike
  • shadowy
  • shady
  • shamed
  • shrouded
  • smeared
  • smirched
  • smoggy
  • smoky
  • smudged
  • smutted
  • soiled
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sooty
  • soupy
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • squalid
  • stained
  • stared
  • starless
  • steamed
  • stormed
  • stormy
  • stygian
  • subverted
  • sulked
  • sullied
  • sunk
  • sunless
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • tarred
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • thick
  • threatened
  • touched
  • turbid
  • twilit
  • twisted
  • unclean
  • unlighted
  • unlit
  • vague
  • veiled
  • vitiated
  • waned

tainted

  • abased
  • adulterate
  • adulterated
  • alloyed
  • bastardized
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • bemired
  • besmeared
  • besmirched
  • blackened
  • blemished
  • blended
  • blurred
  • cheapened
  • clouded
  • coalesced
  • colored
  • combined
  • commingled
  • compounded
  • contaminated
  • corrupted
  • darkened
  • debased
  • debauched
  • decayed
  • defiled
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • depraved
  • dilute
  • diluted
  • dirtied
  • dirty
  • discolored
  • discredited
  • diseased
  • disgraced
  • dishonored
  • distorted
  • doctored
  • fetid
  • fouled
  • fouled up
  • grimed
  • impaired
  • impure
  • incorporated
  • infected
  • intermingled
  • intermixed
  • lowered
  • maculate
  • maculated
  • marred
  • merged
  • mingled
  • mired
  • mixed
  • muddied
  • perverted
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • putrid
  • rotted
  • rotten
  • sank
  • shamed
  • smeared
  • smirched
  • smudged
  • smutted
  • soiled
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stained
  • subverted
  • sullied
  • sunk
  • tarnished
  • tarred
  • thinned
  • touched
  • twisted
  • unclarified
  • unfiltered
  • unrefined
  • vitiated
  • watered down
  • weakened

debased

  • abased
  • abashed
  • affronted
  • bad
  • bad-mouthed
  • base
  • bastardized
  • befouled
  • begrimed
  • belittled
  • bent
  • blemished
  • cankered
  • castigated
  • censured
  • chastened
  • cheapened
  • condemned
  • confounded
  • confused
  • contaminated
  • corrupt
  • corrupted
  • cried down
  • criticized
  • crooked
  • cutthroat
  • damaged
  • damned
  • debauched
  • decadent
  • decried
  • defaced
  • defamed
  • defiled
  • degenerate
  • degraded
  • demeaned
  • demoralized
  • denounced
  • depraved
  • depreciated
  • descended
  • destroyed
  • deteriorated
  • detracted
  • diluted
  • diminished
  • dirtied
  • discomfited
  • disconcerted
  • discounted
  • discountenanced
  • discredited
  • disgraced
  • dishonest
  • dishonored
  • disparaged
  • dissipated
  • dissolute
  • downgraded
  • embarrassed
  • evil
  • execrated
  • fazed
  • flawed
  • flustered
  • fouled
  • harmed
  • humbled
  • humiliated
  • hurt
  • immoral
  • impaired
  • iniquitous
  • insulted
  • jackleg
  • lessened
  • libeled
  • libelled
  • libertine
  • loose
  • lowered
  • maligned
  • marred
  • minimized
  • miscreant
  • mortified
  • nefarious
  • nonplused
  • nonplussed
  • perverse
  • perverted
  • poisoned
  • polluted
  • profaned
  • prostituted
  • put down
  • rakehell
  • rakehelly
  • rakish
  • rattled
  • reprehended
  • reprobate
  • reprobated
  • ridiculed
  • ruined
  • sank
  • shamed
  • sick
  • sinful
  • slandered
  • smirched
  • spoiled
  • spoilt
  • stained
  • subverted
  • sunk
  • tainted
  • tarnished
  • thinned
  • took down
  • unclean
  • unethical
  • unprincipled
  • unscrupulous
  • unwholesome
  • vicious
  • vitiated
  • warped
  • watered down
  • weakened
  • wicked
  • wrecked
  • wrote off

debauched


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