déclassé

[ dey-kla-sey, -klah-; French dey-klah-sey ]

adjective

1. reduced to or having low or lower status:

   a once-chic restaurant that had become completely déclassé.

2. reduced or belonging to a lower or low social class, position, or rank.

déclassé

/ deklɑse /

adjective

1. having lost social standing or status Also (feminine)déclassée

Word History and Origins

Origin of déclassé¹

1885–1890; < French, past participle of déclasser. See de-, class

Word History and Origins

Origin of déclassé¹

C19: from French déclasser to declass

Example Sentences

This became déclassé after 1964 or so, and the singer-songwriters of the 1970s made it downright sinful.

From The Daily Beast

Mr. Schleusner, who was small and vulgar and déclassé and really knew something about business.

From Project Gutenberg

But “somewhere east of Clinton Street” is déclassé to Buffalo, and the big lake-front town would have nothing of that.

From Project Gutenberg

If any line was drawn tightly inside the smart circle, it defined the pseudo-déclassé.

From Project Gutenberg