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Underbred

Definition: Underbred

Underbred

Adjective

1. (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace.

2. Of inferior or mixed breed; "a cur dog"; "an underbred dog".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "underbred" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references)


Synonyms: Underbred

Synonyms: bounderish (adj), cur(a) (adj), ill-bred (adj), lowbred (adj), mixed (adj), mongrel(a) (adj), rude (adj), scrub(a) (adj), yokelish (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Underbred

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Vulgarity

Dowdy; slovenly; (dirty); ungenteel, shabby genteel; low, common, hoi polloi; (plebeian); uncourtly; uncivil; (discourteous); ill bred, ill mannered; underbred; ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike; unladylike, unfeminine; wild, wild as an unbacked colt.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Underbred

English words defined with "underbred": curmixed, mongrelscrub. (references)

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Use in Literature: Underbred

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

And her caro sposo, and her resources, and all her airs of pert pretension and underbred finery.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Modern Translation: Underbred

Language Translations for "underbred"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

me gjak jo i pastër, i edukuar keq (unbred). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вулгарен (caddish, coarse, common, doggish, gross, gutter, loud, low, low-minded, raffish, raw, scurrilous, unedifying, vulgar), нечистокръвен (half-bred, mongrel, unblooded), невъзпитан (cubbish, ill, ill mannered, low, low-bred, mannerless, rude, surly, unbred, unmannered, unmannerly), лошо възпитан (ill bred), просташки (blatant, caddish, jazz, jumped-up, loud, low-minded, oafish, ornery, philistine, raffish, rank, rough, rude, savage, swinish, tasteless, unrefined, vulgar). (various references)

   

Czech

  

špatnì vychovaný (low-bred). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نااصل زاده , ازنژادغیراصیل , بی تربیت (Barbarous, Gross, Impolite, Random, Uncivil). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κακοαναθρεμμένοσ (low-bred), αγενήσ (caddish, coarse, discourteous, heel, ignoble, impolite, indelicate, mannerless, rude, saucy, uncivil, uncourteous, ungracious, unladylike, unmannered, unmannerly). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

alsó ágy. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

lancang (bold, brash, impolite, rude). (various references)

   

Italian

  

maleducato (boor, boorish, bounder, cad, caddish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, mannerless, rude), bastardo (bastard, crossbred, illegitimate, mongrel). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

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Portuguese

  

rústico (backwoods, boor, boorish, bumbling, bumpkin, chuff, churl, churlish, cloddish, clodhopper, clown, countrified, hawbuck, hickory, hind, homely, ill mannered, lob, louver, low brow, lubber, lubber-head, mucker, pease, rude, rural, rustic, rustical, uncouth, yokel), que não é de raça pura, mal-educado (ill bred, mannerliness, unbred), malcriado (ill bred, insolubility, nausea, uncivil, unmannerly). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

нечистокровный (mongrel, unblooded), дурно воспитанный (cubbish, currish, ill bred, ill-bred, mannerless). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

prost (coarse, common, commoner, easy, folksy, homely, homespun, inurbane, low-bred, lowbrow, mere, rude, simple, trivial, vulgar), neobrazovan (letterless, uneducated, unlettered, untutored). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

terbiyesiz (bad, blackguard, blackguardly, broad, caddish, churlish, coarse, coarse grained, dirty, graceless, ill bred, ill mannered, immodest, immoral, impertinent, impolite, improper, impudent, indelicate, inelegant, insolent, mannerless, naughty, ribald, risky, risque, rude, scabrous, shameless, uncultured, undressed, unmannerly, unpolished), kaba (abrupt, barbarous, base, bearish, boorish, brusque, brutal, brutish, churlish, clodhopping, coarse, coarse grained, common, crass, crude, discourteous, disobliging, disrespectful, doric, foul, graceless, gross, gruff, gutter, hard-hitting, harsh, heavy, hobnailed, hoggish, ill bred, ill mannered, impolite, incondite, indelicate, inelegant, loud, loutish, offhand, offhanded, ornery, puffy, rank, rough, rough-hewn, roughly, rude, rugged, rustic, short-spoken, splay, swinish, tactless, unceremonious, unchivalrous, uncivil, uncomplaisant, uncomplimentary, uncouth, unfinished, ungainly, ungalant, ungentle, ungentlemanlike, ungentlemanly, ungraceful, ungracious, unmannerly, unparliamentary, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar), kırma (break, breakage, breaking, crossbred, fracture, half breed, hybrid, injury, laceration, mestizo, mongrel, pleat, unblooded), görgüsüz (graceless, ill bred, mannerless, provincial, uncouth, unmannerly), cins olmayan (unblooded, unpedigreed). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vô giáo dục (caddish, ill-bred), thô lỗ (beastly, ill-mannered, indelicate, loutish, plebeian, snippety, snippy, ungentle), kém giáo dục. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Underbred

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-d-d-e-e-n-r-r-u"

-1 letter: burdened, burdener, durneder.

-2 letters: denuder, endured.

-3 letters: bedder, bended, bender, budder, burden, burned, burner, burred, denude, dudeen, duende, durned, endued, endure, enured, rebred, redbud, redden, redder, rended, render, rudder, unbred.

-4 letters: brede, breed, dreed, dured, ended, ender, endue, enure, erred, nuder, reded, redub, rerun, ruder, udder, undee, under.

-5 letters: bedu, been, beer, bend, bene, bred.

 Words containing the letters "b-d-d-e-e-n-r-r-u"
 

+2 letters: underbidder.

 

+3 letters: overburdened, underbidders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Underbred


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

55 6E 64 65 72 62 72 65 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-    -.    -..    .    .-.    -...    .-.    .    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010101 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110010 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#114 &#98 &#114 &#101 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 006E 0064 0065 0072 0062 0072 0065 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

558070718468847170

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Underbred"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

Albanian

fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferimshqip, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, albanês, албанский, albanski, albanac, Arnavut

Bulgarian

речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, преводbulgr, български, български език, българин, bulharský, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, bulgaristan ile ilgili, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri

Czech

slovník, definice, překladçek, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, người Séc tiếng Séc

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηгръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, greco, grego, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm

Hungarian

szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordításунгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, Ούγγρος, magyar, ungherese, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri

Indonesian

indonezian, индонезийски език, индонезийски, indonéština, indonéský, indonésan, Ινδονήσιος, indonéz, indonesiano, indonésio, indonésia, индонезийский, индонезиец, indonezijski, indonežanin, endonezya'ya ait, endonezyalı, endonezya dili, endonezya, người In-ddô-nê-xi-a tiếng In-ddô-nê-xi-a

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneиталиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, Ιταλός, olasz, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italyanca, italyan

Portuguese

tradução, dicionário, definiçãoportugez, portugalisht, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha

Russian

трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение, словарь, определениеруски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, Ρώσος, orosz, russo, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, Rusça, người Nga tiếng Nga

Serbo-Croatian

tumačenje, leksikon, rečnik, definicijaservo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski

Turkish

tercüme, sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlamaturk, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, τούρκικοσ, török, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ

Vietnamese

sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích, có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự địnhvietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationanglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, inglese, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Fiction
5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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