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adjectiveoccupying a socioeconomic position intermediate between those of the lower classes and the wealthyOpposite:
Definition that contains middle class
- conservative conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- bourgeois a member of the middle class
- bourgeois belonging to the middle class
- bourgeois conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- hippies a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music
- materialistic conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class
- burgher a member of the middle class
- hipsters a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music
- gentrification the restoration of run-down urban areas by the middle class (resulting in the displacement of low-income residents)
- petite bourgeoisie lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.)