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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor, inferior |
| Synonyms: | base, beggarly, common, commonplace, contemptible, humdrum, ignoble, inglorious, insignificant, little, low, low-born, low-ranking, lowly, meager, mean, measly, menial, miserable, modest, obscure, ordinary, paltry, petty, pitiful, plebeian, proletarian, puny, rough, scrubby, seemly, servile, severe, shabby, simple, small, sordid, trivial, unassuming, uncouth, underprivileged, undistinguished, unfit, unimportant, unpretentious, unrefined, vulgar, wretched |
| Antonyms: | luxurious, rich, superior |
| Main Entry: | mean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | poor; of or in inferior circumstances |
| Synonyms: | base, beggarly, common, contemptible, down-at-heel, déclassé, hack, humble, ignoble, ineffectual, inferior, insignificant, limited, low, lowborn, lowly, mediocre, menial, miserable, modest, narrow, obscure, ordinary, paltry, petty, pitiful, plebeian, proletarian, run-down, scruffy, second-class, second-rate, seedy, servile, shabby*, sordid, squalid, tawdry, undistinguished, unwashed, vulgar, wretched |
| Notes: | the median is the halfway point, dividing a series of numbers in half - while a mean is the average of the sum of the series |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plebeian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | base, lower-class |
| Synonyms: | banal, coarse, common, conventional, humble, ignoble, low, lowborn, lowly, mean, ordinary, pedestrian, popular, proletarian, traditional, uncultivated, unrefined, unsophisticated, unwashed, vulgar, working-class |
| Antonyms: | aristocratic, noble, rich, upper-class, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | plebeian |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person of lower class |
| Synonyms: | common people, commonalty, commoner, peasant, person in the street, pleb, plebe, proletarian, rank and file |
| Antonyms: | aristocrat, noble, patrician, rich, wealthy |
| Main Entry: | popular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | common, standard |
| Synonyms: | accepted, accessible, adopted, approved, conventional, current, demanded, embraced, familiar, general, in demand, in use, ordinary, prevailing, prevalent, proletarian, public, rampant, regnant, rife, ruling, stock, ubiquitous, universal, widespread |
| Antonyms: | different, uncommon, unusual |
| Main Entry: | proletariat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | working class |
| Synonyms: | blue-collar workers, bourgeoisie, common people, commoners, hoi polloi, lower class, peasant, plebians, proletarian, rank and file, working stiff |
| Notes: | bourgeoisie is the middle class, while the proletariat is a lower working class |
| Main Entry: | worker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is employed |
| Synonyms: | artisan, blue collar, breadwinner, company person, craftsperson, employee, hand, help, laborer, nine-to-fiver, operative, peasant, proletarian, serf, slave, stiff, toiler, trader, tradesperson, wage earner, white collar, working person, working stiff |
| Antonyms: | unemployed |
| Main Entry: | blue-collar worker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | manual or technical laborer |
| Synonyms: | common laborer, employee, factory worker, hand, industrial worker, laborer, lunch-bucket worker, member of the working class, nonoffice worker, proletarian, working stiff, workingman, workingwoman |
| Main Entry: | blue-collar |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of manual workers |
| Synonyms: | factory-working, lower-class, middle-class, proletarian, proletariat, wage-earning, working class |
| Antonyms: | white-collar |
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