blue-blooded

Definitions

Of noble or aristocratic descent.

Belonging to a socially elite or privileged class.

Examples

Despite his blue-blooded upbringing, he preferred the company of common laborers to the aristocracy.

The estate had been in the hands of the blue-blooded family for over four centuries.

She felt entirely out of place among the blue-blooded socialites at the charity gala.

Synonyms

aristocratic noble patrician highborn well-born titled gentle

Antonyms

common plebeian lowborn proletarian baseborn vulgar working-class