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See definition of well-born on Dictionary.com
  • as inaristocratic
  • as inblue-blooded
  • as ingentle
  • as inpolished

synonyms for well-born

  • courtly
  • dignified
  • elegant
  • haughty
  • noble
  • patrician
  • silk-stocking
  • stylish
  • well-bred
  • aloof
  • blue-blooded
  • elite
  • fine
  • polished
  • refined
  • snobbish
  • upper-class
  • courteous
  • elegant
  • genteel
  • polite
  • cultured
  • polished
  • refined
  • aristocratic
  • blue-blooded
  • Brahmin
  • highborn
  • highbred
  • noble
  • upper-class
  • well-bred
On this page you'll find 89 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to well-born, such as: courtly, dignified, elegant, haughty, noble, and patrician.

antonyms for well-born

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  • ignoble
  • indecorous
  • inelegant
  • rough
  • undignified
  • unfashionable
  • unrefined
  • unsophisticated
  • low-born
  • low-life
  • poor
  • vulgar
  • wanting
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How to use well-born in a sentence

Mrs. Wurzel was quite right; they had been supplied, regardless of cost, from Messrs. Rochet and Stole's well-known establishment.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
GULLIVER'S TRAVELSJONATHAN SWIFT
To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.
EXPRESSIVE VOICE CULTUREJESSIE ELDRIDGE SOUTHWICK
Before he could finish the sentence the Hole-keeper said snappishly, "Well, drop out again—quick!"
DAVY AND THE GOBLINCHARLES E. CARRYL
Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
They ranged from moving trunks to cleaning cisterns, and, by grace of all of them, Sim was doing very well.
THE BONDBOYGEORGE W. (GEORGE WASHINGTON) OGDEN
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
THE SALVAGING OF CIVILISATIONH. G. (HERBERT GEORGE) WELLS
The well-worn aphorism of the Frenchman, “History repeats itself,” was about to assert itself.
CHECKMATEJOSEPH SHERIDAN LE FANU
All our people were well mounted, and armed with rifles, pistols, and bowie-knives.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUS
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WORDS RELATED TO WELL-BORN

  • aloof
  • blue-blooded
  • courtly
  • dignified
  • elegant
  • elite
  • fine
  • haughty
  • noble
  • patrician
  • polished
  • refined
  • silk-stocking
  • snobbish
  • stylish
  • upper-class
  • well-born
  • well-bred
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.