canaille

The word “canaille” has 2 syllables: ca-naille

It's pronounced as /kəˈnaɪ/


What is synonym and antonym for canaille?

In the thesaurus, “canaille” has 14 synonyms and 12 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for canaille along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for canaille

  • boor
  • commoner
  • commoners
  • fellah
  • masses
  • peasant
  • peon
  • pleb
  • plebeian
  • proletarian
  • rabble
  • riffraff
  • roturier
  • unwashed

Antonyms for canaille

Meanings of canaille

  • noun
    1. (chiefly in the plural) The lowest class of people; the rabble; the vulgar.
    2. Shorts or inferior flour.

Example Sentences

  • The nobleman dismissed the unruly crowd as mere canaille.
  • The politician's disdain for the canaille was evident in his speech.
  • She preferred the company of scholars to that of the canaille.
  • The rebels were often referred to as canaille by their enemies.
  • His haughty attitude made it clear he considered himself above the canaille.

On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to canaille, such as: aristocrat, blue blood, boor, commoner, commoners, fellah, gentle.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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ragtag

  • Everyman
  • amalgamated
  • assorted
  • bedraggled
  • blended
  • canaille
  • chaotic
  • cluttered
  • combined
  • commingled
  • commixed
  • common ruck
  • composite
  • confused
  • conglomerate
  • conglomerated
  • decrepit
  • dirty
  • disarranged
  • disarrayed
  • disheveled
  • dishevelled
  • disordered
  • disparate
  • divergent
  • diverse
  • down-at-heel
  • down-at-heels
  • down-at-the-heel
  • down-at-the-heels
  • eclectic
  • farraginous
  • fused
  • heterogeneous
  • hybrid
  • impoverished
  • incorporated
  • indigent
  • indiscriminate
  • intermingled
  • intermixed
  • jumbled
  • kitchen-sink
  • littered
  • lowest social class
  • magpie
  • manifold
  • mean
  • merged
  • messed
  • messy
  • mingled
  • miscellaneous
  • mixed
  • moth-eaten
  • motley
  • muddled
  • multifarious
  • multiple
  • multiplex
  • myriad
  • out at elbows
  • out at the elbows
  • patchwork
  • piebald
  • poor
  • promiscuous
  • rabble
  • ragged
  • raggedy
  • raggle-taggle
  • rank and file
  • riffraff
  • scroungy
  • scruffy
  • shabby
  • shoddy
  • sick
  • sleazy
  • squalid
  • sundry
  • tatterdemalion
  • tattered
  • threadbare
  • unclassified
  • unsorted
  • varied
  • various

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