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plebeian

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of plebeian

belonging to the class of people of low social or economic rank

wondered what the people at the country club would think of his plebeian origins

Synonyms of plebeian

baseborn, common, humble, ignoble, inferior, low, low-life, lowborn, lower-class, lowly, lumpen, mean, prole, proletarian, unwashed, vulgar

Words Related to plebeian

bourgeois, middle-class

plain, poor, simple, working-class

déclassé, down-market, downscale

Near Antonyms of plebeian

eminent, illustrious, notable, prominent

Antonyms of plebeian

aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, patrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn

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