💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Lower class"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| working-class | Of or pertaining to the working class; suggestive of the working class in manner of speaking, outlook, appearance, or other qualities. |
| non-u | (chiefly British, colloquial, dated) Not U; not characteristic of the upper classes, particularly regarding language. |
| blue-collarnoun | Working class; engaged or trained in essentially manual labor. |
| proletariannoun | A member of the proletariat. |
| low-class | Lacking social rank or respectability. |
| propertyless | Without property—things owned. |
| upper-lower-class | occupying the upper part of the lower class |
| wage-earning | working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries |
| underclassnoun | The poorest class of people in a given society. |
| underclassernoun | A member of an underclass |
| lower ordersnoun | (UK, dated, derogatory) The lower classes in society. |
| underpersonnoun | A person of low status. |
| proletariatnoun | (Marxism) Wage earners collectively; people who own no capital and depend on their labour for survival; the working class, especially when seen as engaged in a class struggle with the bourgeoisie (“the capital-owning class”). |
| plebnoun | A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society. |
| lowbrownoun | (countable) Someone or something of low education or culture. |
| snobnoun | (informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. |
| proletariatenoun | Alternative spelling of proletariat. [(often derogatory, also figuratively) The lowest class of society; also, the lower classes of society generally; the masses.] |
| trousered classnoun | The social class of those who are educated and who perform skilled work for a living. |
| abject | Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable. |
| fellownoun | (chiefly in the plural, also figuratively) A companion; a comrade. |
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