Thoroughbred vs Underbred - What's the difference?
thoroughbred | underbred | Antonyms |
A particular breed of horse (this does not refer to any purebred horse)
A well-bred person.
A person of uncommon strength or endurance.
(chiefly, horses) of inferior breeding
* {{quote-book, 1902, title=Cross country with horse and hound, author=Frank Sherman Peer
, passage=I prefer both sire and dam to be well-bred, but a well-bred mare and an underbred horse will produce a faster animal than a thoroughbred horse and an underbred mare.}}
lacking in manners or finesse
* {{quote-book, 1923, title=
, passage=Himself, he felt the most underbred of all; he was afraid of these Utopians: snobbish and abject before them, he was like a mannerless earthy lout in a drawing-room, and he was bitterly ashamed of his own abjection.}}
Thoroughbred is an antonym of underbred.
As a noun thoroughbred
is any of a breed of horses derived from crosses between arabian stallions and english mares, bred for racing.As an adjective underbred is
(chiefly|horses) of inferior breeding.thoroughbred
English
Noun
(en noun)- That athlete is a real thoroughbred .