NONARISTOCRATIC Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

nonaristocratic

adjective

Definition of nonaristocratic

as in plebeian

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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

But new research is shedding light on what life was like for middle- and lower-class residents.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
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

Definition of lower-class

Adjective

The most common type of vessel to travel through the strait was the product tanker, which typically transports refined petroleum products.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 15 Aug. 2026
Medicaid was meant to provide health care to the vulnerable — a pregnant mother, a disabled father, a poor child — but the most common new enrollee of the past decade has been an able-bodied adult.

— Editorial Board, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of common

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

Except the A’s—who, for their part, had finished the month of July with a lowly record of 5–19—won the next game, too.

— Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026
And the Liberty will move on to another lowly opponent — the Connecticut Sun — on Saturday.

— Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of lowly

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