Synonyms of baseborn

baseborn

adjective

1

as in lowborn

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

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

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

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• legitimate

• legitimate