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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1. Gustave Flaubert:

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

2. Karl Lagerfeld:

   Women need to be ready to defend themselves ... in a world that is not that sweet, 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. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.