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Baseborn

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Ignoble; contemptible.

adj. Born of unwed parents; illegitimate.

adj. Of humble birth.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. bastard, illegitimate

adj. Of lowly birth.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Born out of wedlock.

adj. Born of low parentage.

adj. Vile; mean.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of base or low birth; born out of wedlock; of low or mean parentage or origin; spurious.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. illegitimate

adj. of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)

Word Usage

"“She has agreed to meet the Caesar in the field, and he will not hesitate, like a baseborn miscreant, to take every advantage in the encounter, which, I grieve to say, may in all likelihood be fatal to my mistress.”"

Equivalent

illegitimate lowborn

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

vile mean

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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