unnoble

comparative more unnoble · superlative most unnoble

1. datedchiefly pre 1900Not of noble rank.

   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. engineeringOf a metal, being at the lower end of the electrochemical series, i.e. oxidising readily.

   unnoble metal

present singular third person unnobles · participle present unnobling · participle past unnobled · past unnobled

1. transitiveTo make (someone or something) no longer noble