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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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

Consistent cash flow gives you the liquidity to pivot, reinvest in down-market opportunities or simply fund your current lifestyle without touching your principal.

— Justin Donald, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
As the latter became emblematic of comfort and success, the former came to be seen as down-market or second-class.

— Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2026

Definition of down-market

Adjective

However, this applies strictly to plain coffee, not sugary, high-calorie specialty drinks or concentrated caffeine products.

— Robert Glatter, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
In addition to believing, plain and simple, that Shamea crossed the line with her Miss Diane tea, the newbies also seem frustrated by how much the feud is interfering with the group dynamic and the show’s levity.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026

Definition of plain

Adjective

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

Definition of bourgeois

Adjective

Yamal was raised in Rocafonda, a working-class area of Mataro, just up the coast from Barcelona.

— Jack Lang, New York Times, 18 July 2026
Just a few years ago, Yamal was a teenager growing up in Spain’s working-class neighborhood of Rocafonda; he’s been training for this day since he was scouted at six years old.

— Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 16 July 2026

Definition of working-class

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