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ungentrified
adjective
uk /ˌʌnˈdʒen.trɪ.faɪd/ us /ˌʌnˈdʒen.trə.faɪd/
If a place is ungentrified, it has not been changed from being a poor area to a richer one, by people of a higher social class moving to live there:
We lived on a road of ungentrified old houses and flats.
He comes from an ungentrified part of London's East End.
The new museum is in Lower Manhattan's most resolutely ungentrified street.
It's one of the last ungentrified areas left in east London.
The street still has lots of old, ungentrified buildings.
Ungentrified, unplanned spaces play an important role in cities.
The town is gritty and totally ungentrified.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Class & class-consciousness in general
anti-bourgeois
anti-snob
arriviste
bougie
gentrification
gentrify
go/come down in the worldidiom
go/come up in the worldidiom
petit bourgeois
petty bourgeois
pleb
plebby
the bottom of the heapidiom
the gentry
the petite bourgeoisie
the upper crust
trailer trash
underclass
ungenteel
upper class
Related word
gentrify
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