Bourgeois
English
Adjective
Bourgeois (comparative more Bourgeois, superlative most Bourgeois)
- Of or related to the middle class, especially its attitudes and conventions.
- Belonging to the middle class.
- Conventional, conservative and materialistic.
- (politics, leftist terminology) Of, or related to capitalist exploitation of the working class.
Noun
Bourgeois (uncountable)- (politics, collectively) The middle class.
- (rare) An individual member of the middle class.
- A person with bourgeois values and attitudes.
Adverbs for Bourgeois
obscurely; barbarously; humbly; boorishly; churlishly; roughly; savagely; snobbishly; flauntingly; obviously; manifestly; basely; evidently; indubitably; unquestionably; ignobly; meanly; sorrily; confessedly; admittedly.
Synonyms
- (conventional, conservative): square
Thesaurus
capitalist, churl, city dweller, city man, city slicker, clown, common, common man, commoner, commonplace, compulsive, compulsive character, concordant, conformer, conformist, conventional, conventionalist, corresponding, epicier, exurbanite, formalist, formalistic, free-enterprise, garden, garden-variety, general, greedy, groundling, guttersnipe, harmonious, high-camp, homely, homespun, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, in accord, in keeping, in line, in step, individualistic, kitschy, kosher, little fellow, little man, looby, lout, low fellow, low-camp, materialistic, methodologist, middle-class, middle-class type, model child, money-hungry, mucker, no great shakes, nonsocialistic, normal, nouveau riche, oppidan, ordinary, organization man, orthodox, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, pedantic, perfectionist, philistine, plastic, plastic person, pleb, plebeian, pop, popular, precisian, precisianist, precisianistic, private-enterprise, proletarian, propertied, public, regular, ribald, roturier, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, run-of-mine, run-of-the-mill, sheep, square, straight, stuffy, suburban, suburbanite, teenybopper, townee, towner, townfolk, townfolks, townsman, townspeople, townswoman, traditionalist, trimmer, unexceptional, unnoteworthy, unremarkable, unspectacular, upstart, uptight, urbanite, usual, vernacular, villager, villageress, vulgarian, vulgarist, working-class, yes-man, yokel, accordant, anal, anal character, arriviste, average, average man, big-city man, boor, bounder, burgess, burgher, cad, campy,
