Well-bred
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Well-bred is an adjective meaning (of animals) Of good breed.
Meaning
(of animals) Of good breed.
More Meanings
- (of people) 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
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.
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.
Word Forms
- wellbred
Synonyms for well-bred
Depending on context, synonyms include refined, well-mannered.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include well-mannered, refined, wellbred, highbred, ill-bred, truebred.
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