'arriviste' definitions:
Definition of 'arriviste'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, arriviste]
Synonyms of 'arriviste'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Babbitt,
- 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,
- Philistine,
- recruit,
- ribald,
- rising generation,
- rookie,
- rough,
- roughneck,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- settler,
- squatter,
- stowaway,
- stripling,
- tenderfoot,
- upstart,
- vulgarian,
- vulgarist,
- yokel,
- Young Turk