Synonyms of highborn

highborn

adjective

ˈhī-ˈbȯrn 

as in aristocratic

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 & Similar Words

• aristocratic
• noble
• upper-class
• patrician
• upper-crust
• blue-blooded
• highbred
• genteel
• gentle
• great
• royal
• wellborn
• grand
• silk-stocking
• exalted
• regal
• superior
• senior
• high
• knightly
• princely
• queenly
• lordly
• kingly
• lofty
• gentlemanly
• high-level
• ladylike
• ennobled
• elevated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• common
• lower-class
• low
• humble
• lowly
• plebeian
• ignoble
• mean
• bastard
• inferior
• baseborn
• ordinary
• illegitimate
• plain
• knavish
• nonaristocratic
• ungenteel
• junior
• degraded
• subordinate
• abased

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of highborn

But his background is closer to that of George, the highborn son. — Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2026

Fans from America to Europe to Australia bought his books and flocked to his one-man shows, and his potent doses of humor and hard truth enthralled both the highborn and the humble. — Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025

Long shamed for being both mixed-race and illegitimate, Dieudonné needs a highborn bride to prove his worth in the court of Louis XVI. — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2025

Sawai starred as Toda Mariko, a highborn woman with an important role to play in a brewing civil war among Japan’s ruling council of regents. — Joe Otterson, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024