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

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of bourgeois

His cooking was a bridge between an idea of the past, which came from royalty and then became bourgeois cuisine, and modernity. —The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024

The Housemaid is an excessively perverse drama about a bourgeois family torn apart by a patriarch’s affair, and the dread of discovery by the community at large. —Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 28 Oct. 2024

Divorce or no, Faye is still a bourgeois British woman who quietly goes from having a loan on her countryside home to being an honored guest at literary festivals across Europe. —Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 28 June 2024

Not toward Settembrini’s international republic of letters, and not back toward his simple bourgeois life down in the flatlands. —George Packer, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2024