misbegotten
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
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Adjective
misbegotten (comparative more misbegotten, superlative most misbegotten)
- (of a person) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate.
- (by extension, figuratively) Ill-conceived.
- 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “Cabin Boy” in The A.V. Club:
- Many of the strangest, most misbegotten studio films of the last 20 years have been comedies, perhaps because middle-aged executives have no comprehension of what the younger generation finds funny.
- 2012 March 22nd, Scott Tobias, “Cabin Boy” in The A.V. Club:
- (by extension) Bad; worthless.
- 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 82:
- "Do they not sneakingly bestow on me their crass inability to do anything with their own misbegotten progeny, a subterfuge which I scornfully fub off on text-books?"
Translations
of a person: born out of wedlock — see illegitimate
by figurative extension: ill-conceived — see ill-conceived
Verb
misbegotten
Noun
misbegotten (plural misbegotten)
- (obsolete, sometimes derogatory) One born illegitimately (i.e., out of wedlock); a bastard.
- (loosely, in the plural) A person born into infelicitous circumstances.
- 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 161:
- By preserving the incapable and “misbegotten”, and by insisting that they be the object of compassionate attention, it would cause even the strong to be infected with gloom and nihilism.
- 1973, Philippa Foot, “Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values” in Nietzsche: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Robert C. Solomon, Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, →ISBN, page 161:
Translations
one born out of wedlock — see bastard
people, considered as a class, born into infelicitous circumstances
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See also
References
- OED (3rd ed., June 2002), “misbegotten, n. and adj.”
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