| Main Entry: | bourgeois |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commonplace |
Synonyms: |
Philistine, Victorian, common, conservative, conventional, hidebound, illiberal, materialistic, middle-class, old-line, traditional |
Antonyms: |
adventurous, imaginative, inspired, nonconforming, original, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | capitalist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person engaged in private ownership of business |
Synonyms: |
backer, banker, bourgeois, businessperson, entrepreneur, financier, investor, landowner, moneybags, one who signs the checks, plutocrat, the boss, the money |
Antonyms: |
communist |
| Main Entry: | common |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | average, ordinary |
Synonyms: |
accepted, banal, bourgeois, casual, characteristic, colloquial, comformable, commonplace, conventional, current, customary, daily, everyday, familiar, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, homely, humdrum, informal, mediocre, monotonous, natural, obscure, passable, plain, prevailing, prevalent, probable, prosaic, regular, routine, run-of-the-mill, simple, stale, standard, stereotyped, stock, trite, trivial, typical, undistinguished, universal, unvaried, usual, wearisome, workaday, worn-out |
| Notes: | mutual applies to reciprocal relationships between two or more things; if something is held in common, use 'common' instead |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, extraordinary, infrequent, noteworthy, rare, scarce, uncommon, unusual, valuable |
| Main Entry: | conformist |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person in agreement |
Synonyms: |
Babbit, bourgeois, brick in a wall, conventionalist, emulator, follower, one of the herd, rubber stamp, sheep, traditionalist, yes man |
| Main Entry: | conservative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cautious, moderate, tending to preserve the status quo |
Synonyms: |
Tory, bourgeois, constant, controlled, conventional, die-hard, fearful, firm, fogyish, fuddy-duddy, guarded, hard hat, hidebound, holding to, illiberal, in a rut, inflexible, middle-of-the-road, not extreme, obstinate, old guard, old line, orthodox, quiet, reactionary, redneck, right, right of center, right-wing, sober, stable, steady, timid, traditional, traditionalistic, unchangeable, unchanging, uncreative, undaring, unimaginative, unprogressive, white bread |
Antonyms: |
exaggerated, incautious, left-wing, liberal, progressive, radical |
| Main Entry: | conventional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unoriginal |
Synonyms: |
bigoted, bourgeois, commonplace, conforming, conservative, demure, doctrinal, dogmatic, drippy, hackneyed, hidebound, humdrum, illiberal, in rut, inflexible, insular, isolationist, lame, literal, moderate, moral, narrow, narrow-minded, not heretical, obstinate, parochial, pedestrian, prosaic, puritanical, rigid, routine, rube, run-of-the-mill, sober, solemn, square, stereotyped, straight, straight-laced, strict, stuffy, uptight |
Antonyms: |
different, exotic, foreign, new, original, strange, unique |
| Main Entry: | people |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | human beings |
Synonyms: |
John/Jane Q. Public, bodies, body politic, bourgeois, cats, citizens, clan, common people, commonality, community, crowd, family, folk, folks, general public, heads, herd, hoi polloi, horde, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, inhabitants, kin, masses, mob, mortals, multitude, nation, nationality, person in the street, persons, plebeians, populace, population, proletariat, public, rabble, race, rank and file, riffraff, society, tribe |
Antonyms: |
animals, plants |
| Main Entry: | square |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | old-fashioned, conventional |
Synonyms: |
behind the times, bourgeois, button-down, conservative, dated, orthodox, out-of-date, straight*, strait-laced, stuffy |
Antonyms: |
current, in vogue, new, popular, stylish |
| Main Entry: | straight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conventional, square |
Synonyms: |
bourgeois, buttoned-down, conservative, orthodox, traditional |
Antonyms: |
different, unconventional, untraditional |
| Main Entry: | commoner |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plebeian |
Synonyms: |
bourgeois, bourgeoisie, citizen, civilian, peasant |