BOURGEOIS Synonyms

• a citizen of an English borough

• a member of the middle class

• a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise

• resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion

• a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

• a member of a Conservative Party

• having social or political views favoring conservatism

• avoiding excess

• unimaginatively conventional

• conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

• marked by materialism

• conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

• having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle

• characterized by honesty and fairness

• (geometry) a plane rectangle with four equal sides and four right angles; a four-sided regular polygon

• the product of two equal terms

• an open area at the meeting of two or more streets

• something approximating the shape of a square

• someone who doesn't understand what is going on

• a formal and conservative person with old-fashioned views

• any artifact having a shape similar to a plane geometric figure with four equal sides and four right angles

• a hand tool consisting of two straight arms at right angles; used to construct or test right angles

• in a straight direct way

• in a square shape

• firmly and solidly

• providing abundant nourishment

• leaving no balance

• without evasion or compromise

• rigidly conventional or old-fashioned

• make square

• raise to the second power

• cause to match, as of ideas or acts

• position so as to be square

• be compatible with

• pay someone and settle a debt

• turn the paddle; in canoeing

• turn the oar, while rowing

• A lively dance, popular in 16th- and 17th-century Europe.

• The triple-time music for this dance.

• A brisk, merry person.

• An intermediate size of type alternatively equated with brevier (by Didot points) or bourgeois (by Fournier points and by size).

• Gay; brisk; active.