DÉCLASSÉ Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

déclassé

adjective

Definition of déclassé

as in downscale

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Recent Examples of déclassé Very few seem to remember, or care, how declasse that phrase was once considered. — Judith Martin, The Mercury News, 4 Mar. 2025 As prevalent as garlic is in American cooking today, for much of the 20th century it was considered an exotic, even declasse, ingredient. — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Dec. 2022 In China, Pabst beer, which is cheap and declasse stateside, is reformulated as Blue Ribbon 1844 and sells for roughly $50 a bottle. — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021

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Adjective

The corner is the site of the Capitol Square shopping center — tenants include Ross, Marshalls and Cardenas market — and a more downscale mall across the street with Grocery Outlet, Dollar Tree and a space that used to house a Fallas Discount Store.

— Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 21 May 2026
In maybe the funniest scene in the episode, Duncan’s wife Lili has assembled an entire college-enrollment team around Jamie to chart her path to Stanford, which isn’t looking good with a sub-1300 SAT score that isn’t even good enough for such downscale institutions as Duke or Carnegie Mellon.

— Scott Tobias, Vulture, 12 Apr. 2026

Definition of downscale

Adjective

In plain terms, Connecticut had to build the gas plants and therefore absorbed the emissions and the construction costs, and shipped most of the electricity to other states.

— Joe McGee, Hartford Courant, 20 Sep. 2026
In plain English, data centers are enormous buildings full of computers running around the clock.

— Kam Shenai, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of plain

Adjective

Even if the movie gets a bit crazy in an apocalyptic epilogue, its picture of bourgeois smugness due for a takedown is delicious.

— David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
Animals could offer liberatory models to throw off bourgeois conventions, returning Surrealists to primal ways of being.

— Kelly Presutti, ARTnews.com, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of bourgeois

Adjective

The study found a similar divergence in opinions among working-class Latino voters.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Workforce housing is meant to cater to working-class households making a certain amount above the median income in their area, but has been criticized for not actually being affordable for the average worker.

— Daniel Rivero, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026

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