underclassnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈʌn.də.klɑːs/us/ˈʌn.dɚ.klæs/a group of people with a lower social and economic position than any of the other classes of society:
The long-term unemployed now constitute a kind of underclass.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Class & class-consciousness in general
- arriviste
- bougie
- bourgeois
- class struggle
- class-conscious
- high society
- Hooray Henry
- inverted snob
- lower class
- lowest common denominator
- polarize
- prole
- proletarian
- riff-raff
- Sloane Ranger
- the upper crust
- untouchable
- upper class
- upwardly mobile
- well bred
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