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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

Princeton's WordNet2.0 / 1 vote

  1. businessperson, bourgeoisnoun

    a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

    Synonyms:
    burgher, businessperson

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

  2. bourgeois, burgheradjective

    a member of the middle class

    Synonyms:
    burgess, burgher, 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:
    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

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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. Karl Lagerfeld:

    It's not the bourgeois cocktail hat, the ladylike hat, this is another kind of hat, I wouldn't say aggressive, but more protective.

  2. 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.

  3. Gustave Flaubert:

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

  4. Lea Sherman:

    I do not think that Donald Trump is a fascist, a racist, or any kind of epithets that are being thrown at him, i think he’s a bourgeois politician that many working people voted for based on hope and change—the same people who voted for Barack Obama elected Donald Trump.

  5. Karl Marx:

    In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.


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