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baseborn

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of baseborn

1 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 of baseborn

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

Words Related to baseborn

bourgeois, middle-class

plain, poor, simple, working-class

déclassé, down-market, downscale

Near Antonyms of baseborn

eminent, illustrious, notable, prominent

Antonyms of baseborn

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

2 born to a father and mother who are not married

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

Synonyms of baseborn

bastard, illegitimate, misbegotten, natural, spurious, supposititious, unfathered

Words Related to baseborn

fatherless, motherless

adopted, orphaned

Antonyms of baseborn

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