BLUE-BLOODED Synonyms: 51 Similar and Opposite Words

blue-blooded

adjective

as in aristocratic

of high birth, rank, or station his blue-blooded in-laws and working class parents hit it off despite their different backgrounds

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Recent Examples of blue-blooded Tech and finance bros rubbed shoulders with old-money, blue-blooded Burgundians. — George Nelson For Artnews, Robb Report, 9 July 2026 Of course, that won’t stop orange-and-blue-blooded Knicks fans from teeming into the area near the team’s Manhattan arena to watch on bar TVs and big screens as their team — playing 1,580 miles (2,545 kilometers) away in San Antonio — looks to clinch its first title in 53 years. — ABC News, 13 June 2026 Her blue-blooded husband is a silver fox (Hugh Grant) or an Adonis (Alexander Skarsgård). — Judy Berman, Time, 30 Jan. 2026 The recruiting stars attached to a player’s name do not guarantee success any more than a coach’s blue-blooded bonafides ensure his greatness. — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026 Yasmin exited finance altogether, embracing her destiny as the socialite bride-to-be of blue-blooded aristocrat Henry Muck (Kit Harington). — Alison Herman, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026 So just more of these blue-blooded programs down there. — Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025 The official khipu experts would have been born to blue-blooded families and raised for positions of importance. — ArsTechnica, 14 Aug. 2025

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Here’s one book written by this aristocratic Thai woman almost 80 years ago.

— Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2026
In it, a twelve-year-old boy, Cosimo, rebels against his aristocratic family, and the Enlightenment’s false divide between nature and culture, by climbing a holm oak and spending his life in the canopy.

— Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of aristocratic

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The historic home, situated between Via Rodari and Piazza Roma, dates to the 16th and 17th centuries and takes its name from a noble clan that included Pope Innocent XI, head of the Catholic Church in the late 1600s.

— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2026
Next weekend’s slate of new releases looks a lot like this week’s leaderboards — a ton of bright contenders who will engage in a noble, if doomed effort to topple the reigning kings.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of noble

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