bourgeoise
Respectable property owner
Bourgeoise is a feminine form of bourgeois, referring to a woman of the middle class or one with conventionally materialistic values.
The term carries the same slightly pejorative connotations as bourgeois—suggesting comfort-seeking, philistine tastes, or lack of revolutionary spirit: a bourgeoise housewife concerned only with appearances.
The masculine bourgeois is far more common in English, where grammatical gender matters less.
Intermediate socioeconomic group
- shopkeepersRetail establishment proprietors
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- tradespeopleSkilled manual workers
- white-collarOffice work designation
clerks · salaried · professionals · managers · proprietors · self-employed · administrators · strivers
Private ownership supporter
- exploitativeUnfairly using others' vulnerabilities
- complacentUncritically self-satisfied
- conformistOne following accepted norms
- philistineArt-dismissing ignoramus
reactionary · hypocritical · self-satisfied · smug · narrow-minded · materialistic · decadent · parasitic
Purified or cultured
- sophisticatedWorldly and cultured
- culturedEducated in arts, manners
- educatedHaving received formal instruction
- respectableWorthy of regard
conventional · proper · tasteful · decorous · salon · drawing-room · etiquette · manners
Having abundant financial resources
- prosperousEnjoying wealth and success
- moneyedHaving substantial wealth
- well-to-doHaving ample wealth
- well-offHaving sufficient wealth
comfortable · propertied · landed · privileged · high-income · materialistic · acquisitive · consumerist
Formal room for visitors
- drawing-roomFormal reception room
- sitting-roomRoom for relaxation
- furnishingsItems that outfit rooms
- draperyOrnamental hanging cloth
china · silverware · servants · governess · housekeeper · respectability · propriety · domesticity
middle-class
Intermediate socioeconomic group
- shopkeepersRetail establishment proprietors
- merchantsThose who conduct commerce
- tradespeopleSkilled manual workers
white-collar · clerks · salaried · professionals · managers · proprietors · self-employed · administrators · strivers · respectable
capitalist
Private ownership supporter
- exploitativeUnfairly using others' vulnerabilities
- complacentUncritically self-satisfied
- conformistOne following accepted norms
philistine · reactionary · hypocritical · self-satisfied · smug · narrow-minded · materialistic · decadent · parasitic · oppressor
refined
Purified or cultured
- sophisticatedWorldly and cultured
- culturedEducated in arts, manners
- educatedHaving received formal instruction
respectable · conventional · proper · tasteful · decorous · salon · drawing-room · etiquette · manners · finishing-school
affluent
Having abundant financial resources
- prosperousEnjoying wealth and success
- moneyedHaving substantial wealth
- well-to-doHaving ample wealth
well-off · comfortable · propertied · landed · privileged · high-income · materialistic · acquisitive · consumerist · inheritance
parlor
Formal room for visitors
- drawing-roomFormal reception room
- sitting-roomRoom for relaxation
- furnishingsItems that outfit rooms
drapery · china · silverware · servants · governess · housekeeper · respectability · propriety · domesticity · needlework
bourgeoiseproletarian
Wage laborer, no capital
worker · working-class · aristocrat · peasant · laborer
bourgeoiseproletarian
Wage laborer, no capital
proletariat · working class · revolutionary · socialist · communist
bourgeoisebohemian
Artistic nonconformist type
avant-garde · countercultural · nonconformist · radical · free spirit
- bourgeois valuesMiddle-class social standards
- bourgeois cultureValues of the propertied mainstream
- bourgeois lifeComfortable, conventional middle-class way
- petit bourgeoisLower middle-class mentality
- petty bourgeoisLower middle-class property owner
- bourgeois societyCommercial class's social system