underclass

Speech parts

1. underclass - Noun

2. underclass - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

deprived trash proletariat rabble scum dregs riffraff lower-class rank and file hoi polloi underprivileged low-class disadvantaged common people lower orders
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Antonyms

quality noble note wealthy elite nobility
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Hypernyms

class social class socio-economic class

Examples

We have a large underclass in Britain, and a fairly low standard of education. Our best universities are extremely good, but a very significant proportion of the British population that comes out of compulsory schooling with very low standards of education. Nigel Short

Since my retirement, I've spent a lot of time trying to help the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina. A society like this just can't afford an uneducated underclass of citizens. Charles Kuralt

Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass. They quote the Bible as the reference that 'God gave them the land.' The size of the alleged God-given land has never been determined and Israel's borders still remain fuzzy. Lee Whitnum

You're the outcast / You're the underclass / But you don't care / Because you're living fast You're the uninvited guest that stays to the end. I'll be scraping your life from the sole of my shoe tonight" Bring It On Down. Noel Gallagher

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. Henry Louis Gates

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside. Zygmunt Bauman

Close letter words and terms

undercity underclad underclaim underclasser underclassify underclassman