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:
   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

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. Saint Just:

   In the bourgeois neighborhoods, that's where it's a problem. They go crazy over these (EU) issues. That's what's stopping them from voting for us, but in the working class areas they don't really care.

2. 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.

3. Simone Weil:

   Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets.

4. 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.

5. AMYNE E. QASEM:

   You can become rich easily but it’s quite hard to become bourgeois