arriviste
n : a person who has suddenly risen to a higher economic status
but has not gained social acceptance of others in that
class [syn: upstart, parvenu, nouveau-riche]
WordNet (r) 2.0
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "arriviste":
Babbitt, Philistine, Young Turk, boor, bounder, bourgeois,
bright young man, cad, churl, clown, comer, emigrant, epicier,
fledgling, gate-crasher, greenhorn, groundling, guttersnipe,
hooligan, ill-bred fellow, immigrant, intruder, looby, lout,
low fellow, modern, modern generation, modern man, modernist,
modernizer, mucker, neologism, neologist, neology, neonate,
neoteric, neoterism, neoterist, new arrival, new boy,
new generation, new man, newcomer, nouveau riche, novus homo,
parvenu, peasant, recruit, ribald, rising generation, rookie,
rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, settler, squatter, stowaway,
stripling, tenderfoot, upstart, vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
nouveau-riche, parvenu, upstart
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