Synonyms of bourgeois

bourgeois

adjective

as in middle-class

belonging to the class of people of middle social or economic rank

The neighborhood was occupied primarily by bourgeois families.

Related Words

• middle-class
• working-class
• plain
• proletarian
• simple
• déclassé
• plebeian
• lower-class
• downscale
• common
• low-life
• lumpen
• low
• down-market
• ignoble
• poor
• vulgar
• unwashed
• humble
• lowly
• inferior
• prole
• lowborn
• mean
• baseborn

Dissimilar Words

• aristocratic
• upper-class
• noble
• patrician
• high
• genteel
• great
• grand
• lofty
• gentle
• upper-crust
• highborn
• eminent
• blue-blooded
• highbred
• prominent
• wellborn
• illustrious
• notable

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of bourgeois

Their attempts to destroy the bourgeois family were, like the efforts of Suzanna’s mother and grandmother, ambivalent and half-hearted. — Julius Taranto, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026

And their struggle, within their world, to lead a good life, to lead a life that has meaning—their struggle between whether to pursue romantic adventure or a staid, bourgeois life—felt very real to me, at age twenty-five. — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026

Ana Dumitrescu stars as a young Romanian woman who moves to France to work for a bourgeois family and joins an amateur theater troupe adapting Mirbeau’s novel for the stage. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026

In sharp contrast to the first-generation members of the Frankfurt School, Habermas came from a petit-bourgeois, culturally conservative Protestant milieu, his family name going back to sixteenth-century Thuringian cobblers. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026