Antonyms for upper classup·per class

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1. upper classnoun

   Synonyms:
   the quality, the Quality

2. upper classnoun

   those people at the top of a social hierarchy

   Synonyms:
   the quality, the Quality

3. upper classnoun

   the aristocracy

   Synonyms:
   the Quality, the quality

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1. upper class, upper crustadjective

   the class occupying the highest position in the social hierarchy

   Antonyms:
   non-U, upper-middle-class, bourgeois, low-class, propertyless, materialistic, middle-class, blue-collar, lower-class, working-class, conservative, upper-lower-class, lower-middle-class, proletarian, wage-earning

   Synonyms:
   upper crust

2. upper-classadjective

   occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society

   Antonyms:
   non-U, blue-collar, upper-middle-class, middle-class, materialistic, conservative, lower-class, proletarian, working-class, bourgeois, low-class, propertyless, lower-middle-class, wage-earning, upper-lower-class

How to use upper class in a sentence?

1. Economist Brian Jackson:

   Many large malls (and residential construction) in China.... are all hoping to target one demographic -- the upper class, what is needed to succeed is retail space that caters to (the much larger) bulk of middle-class Chinese.

2. Michael Rosenbaum:

   I thought she would be married with kids. She was smart, and her family was into music and opera and stuff, and sort of upper class.

3. Paul Fussell:

   If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.

4. Mary McCarthy:

   In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

5. John Peet:

   Defining consultancy is a bit like defining the upper class every possible candidate draws the line just below himself.

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