baseborn

base·born

adjective \-ˈbȯrn\

Definition of BASEBORN

1

: mean, ignoble

2

a : of humble birth

b : of illegitimate birth

Examples of BASEBORN

1. <in the Middle Ages, a baseborn person simply had to accept his or her station in life>
2. <a baseborn child who didn't even know his father's name>

First Known Use of BASEBORN

1591

Related to BASEBORN

Synonyms

ignoble, common, humble, inferior, low, lowborn, lower-class, low-life, lowly, lumpen, mean, plebeian, prole, proletarian, unwashed, vulgar

Antonyms

aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, partrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn

Related Words

bourgeois, middle-class; plain, poor, simple, working-class; déclassé, down-market, downscale

Near Antonyms

eminent, illustrious, notable, prominent

Rhymes with BASEBORN

acorn, adorn, airborne, althorn, bass horn, bicorne, blackthorn, blue corn, boxthorn, broomcorn, buckthorn, bullhorn, careworn, Christ's-thorn, Dearborn, dehorn, dent corn, earthborn, einkorn, field corn, firethorn, firstborn, flint corn, foghorn, forewarn, forlorn, forworn, freeborn, French horn, green corn, greenhorn, hartshorn, hawthorn, highborn, hulled corn, inborn, inkhorn, krummhorn, leghorn, longhorn, lovelorn, lowborn, newborn, outworn, pod corn, popcorn, post horn, pronghorn, ramshorn, reborn, saxhorn, seaborne, self-born, shipborne, shoehorn, shopworn, shorthorn, skyborne, soilborne, stillborn, stinkhorn, suborn, sweet corn, tick-borne, timeworn, tinhorn, toilworn, tricorne, trueborn, twice-born, twinborn, unborn, unworn, wayworn, wellborn, well-worn, wind-borne