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lower-class

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of lower-class

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

they were finally earning enough to get out of the lower-class tax bracket

Synonyms of lower-class

baseborn, common, humble, ignoble, inferior, low, low-life, lowborn, lowly, lumpen, mean, plebeian, prole, proletarian, unwashed, vulgar

Words Related to lower-class

bourgeois, middle-class

plain, poor, simple, working-class

déclassé, down-market, downscale

Near Antonyms of lower-class

eminent, illustrious, notable, prominent

Antonyms of lower-class

aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, patrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn

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