Synonyms for Bourgeois
bʊərˈʒwɑ, ˈbʊər ʒwɑbour·geois

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1. bourgeoisnoun

   Anyone deemed to be an exploiter of the proletariat, a capitalist.

   Synonyms:
   square

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1. businessperson, bourgeoisnoun

   a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

   Synonyms:
   bourgeois, burgher, businessperson

   Antonyms:
   upper-class, lower-class, socialist, low-class, socialistic

2. bourgeois, burgheradjective

   a member of the middle class

   Synonyms:
   burgess, burgher, bourgeois, businessperson

   Antonyms:
   low-class, lower-class, upper-class, socialist, socialistic

3. bourgeoisadjective

   (according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class

   Synonyms:
   materialistic, conservative

   Antonyms:
   low-class, upper-class, socialist, lower-class, socialistic

4. bourgeois, conservative, materialisticadjective

   conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

   "a bourgeois mentality"

   Synonyms:
   bourgeois, mercenary, conservative, buttoned-down, worldly-minded, materialistic, cautious, button-down

   Antonyms:
   low-class, lower-class, upper-class, socialist, socialistic

5. bourgeoisadjective

   belonging to the middle class

   Synonyms:
   materialistic, conservative

   Antonyms:
   upper-class, socialist, socialistic, low-class, lower-class

Matched Categories

1. • Capitalist

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1. List of paraphrases for "bourgeois":

   bourgeoisie, middle-class

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How to use Bourgeois in a sentence?

1. Adolf Hitler:

   This means that a people cannot be made “national” according to the signification attached to that word by our bourgeois class today - that is to say, nationalism with many reservations- but national in the vehement and extreme sense.

2. Bill Beham:

   Bourgeois is a bourgeois word.

3. Aleister Crowley:

   If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.

4. Gustave Flaubert:

   The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

5. Rita Sorrenti:

   We had room for all social classes : elegant bourgeois ladies, young apprentices, old men, masons and even tramps queued outside, they wanted a curative pedicure, our specialty.