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. 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. 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.

3. Karl Marx:

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

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. Bill Beham:

   Bourgeois is a bourgeois word.

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