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unwashed
un·washed U0125900 (ŭn-wŏsht′, -wôsht′)adj.1. Not washed; unclean.2. Common; plebeian: the unwashed masses.unwashed (ʌnˈwɒʃt) adjnot washedpl nthe great unwashed jocular derogatory the massesun•washed (ʌnˈwɒʃt, -ˈwɔʃt)
adj. 1. not cleaned or purified by or as if by washing. 2. untutored, unsophisticated, or ignorant; plebeian. n. 3. the (great) unwashed, the masses; the rabble. [1350–1400] Thesaurus| Adj. | 1. |  unwashed - of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses"plebeian, vulgar, commonlowborn - of humble birth or origins; "a topsy-turvy society of lowborn rich and blue-blooded poor" | | 2. |  unwashed - not cleaned with or as if with soap and water; "a sink full of unwashed dishes"dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
unwashedadjectiveLacking high station or birth:baseborn, common, déclassé, declassed, humble, ignoble, lowly, mean, plebeian, vulgar.Archaic: base.Translationsunwashed
the unwashed massesThe broader general public, especially those of the lower and lower-middle classes. The film didn't cause too great a stir with the unwashed masses, but it has been considered a milestone in cinematic achievement among film critics. The world of the super-rich is one that we among the unwashed masses can't even begin to understand.See also: masse, unwashedthe great unwashedThe general public, especially those of the lower and lower-middle classes. Critics are hailing the film as a modern masterpiece, though it doesn't seem to be causing too great a stir among the great unwashed The world of the super rich is one that we among the great unwashed can't even begin to understand.See also: great, unwashedthe great unwashedFig. the general public; the lower middle class. The Simpsons had a tall iron fence around their mansion—put there to discourage the great unwashed from wandering up to the door by mistake, I suppose. Maw says the great unwashed don't know enough to come in out of the rain.See also: great, unwashedthe great unwashed People use the great unwashed to mean poor or ordinary people. A man quickly led the Queen's husband away from the great unwashed. Note: This expression is used humorously. See also: great, unwashedthe (great) unwashed the mass or multitude of ordinary people. derogatory 1997 Spectator Early piers tried to be rather socially exclusive, but the need to maintain revenue soon opened the gates to the great unwashed. See also: unwashedthe great unwashed n. most of the common people; the hoi polloi. I usually find myself more in agreement with the great unwashed than with the elite. See also: great, unwashedgreat unwashed, theThe working classes. The term showed up in print in the early nineteenth century in Theodore Hook’s The Parson’s Daughter (1833), where it appears in quotation marks. Exactly who first coined the phrase is not known, but in Britain it was used to describe the rabble of the French Revolution who rose up against the privileged classes. Although Eric Partridge said that its snobbishness had made it obsolescent by the 1940s, it is still used ironically.See also: greatGreat UnwashedA disparaging term for the common man. The phrase first appeared in an 1830 novel, Paul Clifford, by the British novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton: “He is certainly a man who bathes and ‘lives cleanly,' (two especial charges preferred against him by Messrs. the Great Unwashed).” Among other cynics (although they would call themselves realists) who used the phrase was H. L. Mencken, who also referred to the majority of Americans as the “booboisie.”See also: great, unwashedunwashed
Related to unwashed: rabble, unwashed massesSynonyms for unwashedadj lacking high station or birthSynonyms- baseborn
- common
- déclassé
- declassed
- humble
- ignoble
- lowly
- mean
- plebeian
- vulgar
- base
Synonyms for unwashedadj of or associated with the great masses of peopleSynonymsRelated Wordsadj not cleaned with or as if with soap and waterRelated Words |