unnoble
verbEtymology From Middle English unnoble, equivalent to un- + noble.
1
To make (someone or something) no longer noble
unnoble
adjEtymology From Middle English unnoble, equivalent to un- + noble.
1
Dated Not of noble rank.
Chiefly pre 1900
- Yet from the commencement of mining there have been unnoble proprietors of mines, who belonged to the class of merchants.1800, William Took, View of the Russian empire during the reign of Catharine the Second:
2
Not noble; ignoble; base.
3
Engineering, Metallurgy, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Of a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily.
- unnoble metal
- Synonyms
- base, base metal
- Derived terms
- unnobleness, unnobly