baseborn as an adjective: - 1
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baseborn
adjective
1 baseborn
Of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense):
— Baseborn wretches with dirty faces.
synonyms: base, humble, lowly.
Roget 876:
ignoble,
common,
mean,
low,
base,
vile,
sorry,
scrubby,
beggarly;
below par;
no great shakes
etc.
(unimportant)
643;
homely,
homespun;
vulgar,
low-minded;
snobbish.
plebeian,
proletarian;
of low parentage,
of low origin,
of low extraction,
of mean parentage,
of mean origin,
of mean extraction;
lowborn,
baseborn,
earthborn†;
mushroom,
dunghill,
risen from the ranks;
unknown to fame,
obscure,
untitled.
rustic,
uncivilized;
loutish,
boorish,
clownish,
churlish,
brutish,
raffish;
rude,
unlicked†.
barbarous,
barbarian,
barbaric,
barbaresque†;
cockney,
born within sound of Bow bells.
underling,
menial,
subaltern.
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2 baseborn
Illegitimate.
synonym: base.
Moby thesaurus: base, bastard, below the salt, cockney, common, commonplace, false, fatherless, homely, humble, illegitimate, low, lowborn, lowbred, lowly, mean, misbegotten, miscreated, natural, nonclerical, ordinary, plain, plebeian, rude, shabby-genteel, spurious, supposititious, third-estate, ungenteel, unwashed, vulgar ... show more.
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