well-bred
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.79 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Well-mannered and refined because of a good upbringing and education (and, originally and literally but usually not in current usage, because well-born in a eugenic sense).
Example Sentences
- "Halpin [Frayser]’s death and the post-mortem demoniacalness of the well-bred Southern woman, lops off the grafted branches of the human and cuts it down to that stump of itself which is primordial, persistent, unconscious animalism."
- "Ideally you should relax—though well-bred English people do no feel entirely at ease in a room full of naked strangers beating one another."
Inflected Forms
better-bred (comparative)
more well-bred (comparative)
best-bred (superlative)
most well-bred (superlative)
wellbred (alternative)