Synonyms of bourgeois

bourgeois

adjective

as in poor

belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank

The neighborhood was occupied primarily by bourgeois families.

Synonyms & Similar Words

• poor
• middle-class
• working-class
• plain
• proletarian
• simple
• déclassé
• plebeian
• lower-class
• downscale
• common
• low-life
• lumpen
• low
• down-market
• ignoble
• vulgar
• unwashed
• humble
• lowly
• inferior
• prole
• lowborn
• mean
• baseborn

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• aristocratic
• upper-class
• noble
• patrician
• high
• genteel
• great
• grand
• lofty
• gentle
• upper-crust
• highborn
• eminent
• blue-blooded
• highbred
• prominent
• wellborn
• illustrious
• notable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bourgeois

There’s plenty such wordplay in The Safe House, to the point that the movie can seem like a caricature of overeducated, perpetually growling Parisians shouting for social change, but too self-centered and comfortable in their bourgeois lifestyles to do anything drastic about it. —Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2025

The social outcast lead is now a Black African (Mamadou Sidibé), action moves to Marseilles and the protagonist is taken in by a suave bourgeois member of the French-Arab community. —John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025

My grandmother was a bourgeois German Jew, and my grandfather was the son of a stonemason in Sardinia. —Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2025

And a lot of conservatism in general is about upholding bourgeois lifestyles, morality, identity, politics, and so forth. —Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 21 Jan. 2025