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highborn

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of highborn

of high birth, rank, or station

skeptics have argued that these dramatic masterpieces must have been written by someone more highborn than one William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon

Synonyms of highborn

aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, highbred, noble, patrician, silk-stocking, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn

Words Related to highborn

high, lofty, superior

elevated, ennobled, exalted

gentlemanly, kingly, knightly, ladylike, lordly, princely, queenly, regal, royal

high-level, senior

Near Antonyms of highborn

inferior, knavish

bastard, illegitimate

ordinary, plain

abased, degraded

junior, subordinate

Antonyms of highborn

baseborn, common, humble, ignoble, low, lower-class, lowly, mean, nonaristocratic, plebeian, ungenteel

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