anti-bourgeoisadj.n.
/ˌantɪbʊəˈʒwɑː/, /ˌantɪbɔːˈʒwɑː/, /ˌantɪˈbʊəʒwɑː/, /ˌantɪˈbɔːʒwɑː/, U.S. /ˌæn(t)iˌbʊrʒˈwɑ/, /ˌæn(t)iˈbʊrʒˌwɑ/, /ˌænˌtaɪˌbʊrʒˈwɑ/, /ˌænˌtaɪˈbʊrʒˌwɑ/, /ˌæn(t)əˌbʊrʒˈwɑ/, /ˌæn(t)əˈbʊrʒˌwɑ/ A. adj.
Not bourgeois, that is the opposite of bourgeois; (also) antagonistic or opposed to the bourgeoisie or to bourgeois attitudes or values.
ΚΠ
1850 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. May 459 The provisional government was anxious to free the republic from its anti-bourgeois appearance.
1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 211 He had..a point of view which would have enabled him to see the comic side of Flaubert's anti-bourgeois emportement.
1999 A. Chambers Postcards from No Man's Land (2004) 35 Making a point, or a pretense anyway, of being anti-bourgeois unposh.
2003 New Yorker 6 Jan. 38/3 The period of Starace and his anti-bourgeois ‘dress revolution’.
B. n.
With the and plural agreement. That which is not bourgeois; (also) people who are antagonistic or opposed to the bourgeoisie or to bourgeois attitudes or values.
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1919 E. Paul & C. Paul tr. T. G. Masaryk Spirit of Russia I. xii. 427 He achieved little with his conception of Byron's Cain as nothing more than the antibourgeois.
2005 D. A. Nielsen Horrible Workers iii. 34 Rimbaud was an extremist even among the extremes of the antibourgeois.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2022).
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