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

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

Both of his arms are in the sleeves, and his bourgeois father is kneeling on the floor, taking the shirt in order to conserve it, perhaps saving it from being soiled. — Theo Belci, Artforum, 27 Feb. 2026

In a more simplistic story, Derya and Aziz’s efforts to find a good private school for their daughter would come off as a hopeless bourgeois indulgence. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026

Jim Dickinson stepped in to produce and play a little piano, but Travis deemed the results too polished, too polite, too bourgeois. — Stephen M. Deusner, Pitchfork, 8 Feb. 2026