LOWBORN Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

lowborn

adjective

ˈlō-ˈbȯrn

Definition of lowborn

as in low

belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank his patrician parents were very slow to accept his lowborn wife

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Recent Examples of lowborn Newly added to the mix are lowborn dragonriders of Valyrian descent, Addam of Hull (whose father is Corlys Velaryon), Hugh and Ulf. — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026 Peter Claffey stars in the HBO drama as the lowborn Ser Duncan the Tall, who gains a squire in a Targaryen prince. — Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2025 Ser Luthor Largent is introduced as a lowborn knight and office on the City Watch. — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025 Few spoke up for the man viewed by many as a lowborn upstart, but Cromwell, his faithful servant, was the exception, petitioning Henry at great risk to his own reputation. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025 Nor was there a payoff to the mounting tensions in capital city King’s Landing, where Rhaenyra’s lowborn advisor Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno) has been sowing the seeds of rebellion among the common people. — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024

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Wall Street looked past geopolitics even as oil prices climbed on the back of lower-than-expected inflation figures that sent tech stocks higher.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 15 July 2026
The results were consistent across most states lower rates of sleep insufficiency were associated with longer life expectancy.

— Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

Definition of low

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The franchise centers around a dystopian nation called Panem, where rich and authoritarian leaders force twelve lower-class districts to submit two children to fight in a deadly, and televised, battle every year.

— Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE, 11 July 2026
In recent years, more and more students from lower-class families have been able to attend universities.

— The Atlantic, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026

Definition of lower-class

Adjective

Linen and cotton, cooling garments, were too plebeian; the people posed nobly for street-style social-media accounts in leather jackets and low-slung jorts.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
This one is about a regular old guy, a hedge knight in the plebeian population of Westeros, just trying to get by in a world that isn't kind to the common and poor.

— Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 13 Jan. 2026

Definition of plebeian

Adjective

This is an ignoble war making monsters and fools out of its participants, and against the uncontrollable weapons that are dragons, everyone’s resolve is crumbling.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 June 2026
The most memorable, and notorious, moment from the race was the ignoble exit of Democratic Congressman Eric Swalwell.

— Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 27 May 2026

Definition of ignoble

Adjective

But West Virginia is a proletarian locale that until not long ago was a Democratic stronghold.

— Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
These ranged from the aristocratic elite who dominated the military and bureaucracy and yearned for a return to monarchy, to communists who sought proletarian rule, to the National Socialists who wanted to establish a right-wing dictatorship.

— Time, Time, 23 Oct. 2025

Definition of proletarian

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