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patrician

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of patrician

of high birth, rank, or station
  • Todd came from a patrician family.
Synonyms of patrician

aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, highborn, highbred, noble, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn
Words Related to patrician

high, lofty, superior

elevated, ennobled, exalted

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

high-level, senior
Near Antonyms of patrician

inferior, knavish

bastard, illegitimate

ordinary, plain

abased, degraded

junior, subordinate
Antonyms of patrician

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

patrician

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of patrician

a man or woman of high birth or social position
  • the mansions once occupied by patricians
Synonyms of patrician

aristocrat, blue blood, gentle, gentleperson, noble
Words Related to patrician

socialite, swell

magnate, magnifico, mogul, nabob

gentlefolk (also gentlefolks)
Near Antonyms of patrician

commoner, pleb, plebeian, proletarian

boor, fellah, peasant, peon

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