bourgeois

adj. having the habits and values of the middle class, often in a way that seems boring or too focused on money.

adj. relating to the middle class, typically with a pejorative connotation of being overly conventional, materialistic, or preoccupied with social status.

“They live a very bourgeois life with their expensive car and perfect garden.”

“The artist mocked the bourgeois values of his parents, claiming their obsession with respectability stifled any true creativity.”

Formal

adj. relating to the people who own businesses and property in a capitalist system.

adj. relating to the ruling class in a capitalist society who own the means of production.

“The book discusses the rise of bourgeois society during the industrial revolution.”

“Marxist critics argued that the legal system was merely a bourgeois instrument designed to protect private property at the expense of the workers.”

Academic

n. a person who belongs to the middle class or has middle-class values.

n. an individual belonging to the middle class or the capitalist class.

“He was a typical bourgeois who cared mostly about his bank account.”

“The play satirizes the aspirations of a wealthy bourgeois who desperately wants to be accepted by the old aristocracy.”

Formal

n. a specific size of small printed letters used in old books.

n. a size of printing type, approximately 9 points, situated between brevier and long primer.

“The old newspaper was printed in bourgeois type, making it hard to read.”

“The manual was set in bourgeois, a common choice for nineteenth-century technical publications requiring high information density.”

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