Antonyms 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. • Capitalist

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1. businessperson, bourgeoisnoun

   a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

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

   Synonyms:
   burgher, businessperson

2. bourgeois, burgheradjective

   a member of the middle class

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

   Synonyms:
   burgess, burgher, businessperson

3. bourgeoisadjective

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

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

   Synonyms:
   materialistic, conservative

4. bourgeois, conservative, materialisticadjective

   conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

   "a bourgeois mentality"

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

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

5. bourgeoisadjective

   belonging to the middle class

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

   Synonyms:
   materialistic, conservative

How to use bourgeois in a sentence?

1. Henry Adams:

   As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.

2. Gustave Flaubert:

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

3. Bill Beham:

   Bourgeois is a bourgeois word.

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. 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.

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