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lower-class

lower-class adjective: not of the elite, of the peasantry or working-class.

Adjective

lower-class (comparative more lower-class, superlative most lower-class)

  1. Not of the elite, of the peasantry or working-class.
    • The lower-class people have little chance of advancement.
  2. Unrefined.
    • His lower-class tastes tended to run to three-stooges movies and cheap drink.

Forms of lower-class

comparativemore lower-class
superlativemost lower-class

Words formed from lower-class

Questions about lower-class

What does lower-class mean?
Lower-class means not of the elite, of the peasantry or working-class.
What part of speech is lower-class?
Lower-class is an adjective.

Words near lower-class in the dictionary

  1. lower-carb
  2. lower-case
  3. lower-cased
  4. lower-cases
  5. lower-casing
  6. lower-class
  7. lower-classness
  8. lower-cost
  9. lower-density
  10. lower-down
  11. lower-emission

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