de-bourgeoisify
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To remove the bourgeois characteristics or qualities from (someone or something)
Example Sentences
- "To this extent, Artaud's work may be viewed as an attempt to de-bourgeoisify the early twentieth-century theatre: to render it less cerebral, less literary, less refined, less circumscribed, more visceral."
- "Despite the freezing out of formal residential uses, some areas of the frozen zone were thoroughly "de-bourgeoisified" […] through the conversion of housing stock into dormitories for students from the provinces."
Etymology
From de- + bourgeoisify.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de