All lower-class synonyms
low·er-class
L l noun lower-class
- working class — those persons working for wages, especially in manual labor.
- proletariat — common people, working class
- hoi polloi — general public, common people
- masses — the celebration of the Eucharist. Compare High Mass, Low Mass.
- rank and file — the members of a group or organization apart from its leaders or officers.
- commonalty — the ordinary people as distinct from those with authority, rank, or title, esp when considered as a political and social unit or estate of the realm
- lowlife — a despicable person, especially a degenerate or immoral person.
- other half — the people of an economic class clearly different from one's own or from that to which reference is being made: a glimpse of how the other half lives.
- plebs — a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.
adj lower-class
- proletarian — pertaining or belonging to the proletariat.
- middle-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the middle class; bourgeois: middle-class taste; middle-class morality.
- base — The base of something is its lowest edge or part.
- common — If something is common, it is found in large numbers or it happens often.
- contemptible — If you feel that someone or something is contemptible, you feel strong dislike and disrespect for them.
- dishonorable — showing lack of honor or integrity; ignoble; base; disgraceful; shameful: Cheating is dishonorable.
- humble — not proud or arrogant; modest: to be humble although successful.
- ignoble — of low character, aims, etc.; mean; base: his ignoble purposes.
- inferior — lower in station, rank, degree, or grade (often followed by to): a rank inferior to colonel.
- mean — to intend for a particular purpose, destination, etc.: They were meant for each other. Synonyms: destine, foreordain.
- plebeian — belonging or pertaining to the common people.
- unwashed — not cleaned or purified by or as if by washing: unwashed dishes; the unwashed soul of a sinner.
- unworthy — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.