aristocratic

pronunciation

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Adjective:

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

Word Origin

aristocratic (adj.): c. 1600, "pertaining to aristocracy," from French aristocratique, from Greek aristokratikos "belonging to the rule of the best," from aristokratia (see aristocracy). Meaning "grand, stylish" is from 1845.

Synonym

adj.

gracious genty elegant charming decorous fine courtly well-mannered gentlemanly gentleman-like polite mannerly graceful exquisite courteous ladylike delicate

adj.

mannered lordly pretentious unnatural affected arrogant snobbish hoity-toity proud haughty

adj.

mannerly high-toned urbane finished worldly cultivated sophisticated refined civil polished classy

adj.

well-born highborn nobble blue-blooded genteel birth thoroughbred noble pedigreed gentle patrician of

Example

1. The real prize for titian , as for michelangelo before him , was an aristocratic patron .

2. Marx had started work on " das kapital " , but there was a problem . He had by then acquired an aristocratic german wife , a clutch of small children and aspirations for a comfortable bourgeois lifestyle , but no means of support .

3. His central characters are aristocratic profligates who consider themselves above morality and amuse themselves by plotting the seduction of a young girl .

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