Meaning & use
bourgeois
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Relating to the middle class, especially in terms of conventional values, materialism, or respectability, often used disapprovingly.
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The artist rejected what he saw as bourgeois obsession with property and status.
Critics called the film's ending too neat and bourgeois for such a radical story.
A note on using this word
Bourgeois entered English from French and is frequently used, especially in political and cultural criticism, with a negative or dismissive connotation.
Words with a similar meaning
middle-classconventional
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Words with an opposite meaning
proletarianworking-class
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