Synonyms of baseborn

baseborn

adjective

1

as in low

belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank

in the Middle Ages, a baseborn person simply had to accept his or her station in life

Synonyms & Similar Words

• low
• plebeian
• humble
• ignoble
• lower-class
• lowborn
• inferior
• unwashed
• lowly
• proletarian
• vulgar
• common
• low-life
• poor
• lumpen
• prole
• mean
• bourgeois
• middle-class
• plain
• simple
• working-class
• déclassé
• down-market
• downscale

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• aristocratic
• noble
• high
• patrician
• great
• upper-class
• grand
• gentle
• genteel
• lofty
• highborn
• wellborn
• highbred
• upper-crust
• blue-blooded
• eminent
• illustrious
• prominent
• notable

2

as in illegitimate

born to a father and mother who are not married

a baseborn child who rose to prominence in 19th-century London society

Synonyms & Similar Words

• illegitimate
• misbegotten
• supposititious
• spurious
• motherless
• unfathered
• natural
• fatherless
• adopted
• nameless
• orphaned

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• legitimate