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
• down-market
• ignoble
• low
• 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

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

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

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