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Word | Parvenu |
Italian Meaning | arricchito, parvenu, nuovo ricco, arrivista |
characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position / An upstart / a person of obscure origin who has gained wealth, influence, or celebrity. / a person from usually a low social position who has recently or suddenly become wealthy, powerful, or successful but who is not accepted by other wealthy, powerful, and successful people, | |
Usage | ⇒ the kind of trophy house that a parvenu buys to prove to people, and to himself, that he has indeed arrived ⇒ the political inexperience of a parvenu |
Synonyms | upstart, nouveau riche, parvenue, arriviste, snob, nouveau-riche, mushroom, climber, forward, nobody, adventurer, bounder, cad, clown, social climber, arrogant, snobbish, bourgeois gentilhomme, intruder, intrusive, |
Antonyms | unpretentious, old, old hand, old style, old style font, |
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