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Synonyms for rabble

  • noun

Most common

riff-raff crowd populace dregs

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Noun

1. Mob — the mass of common people; the lowest class of populace

riff-raff, crowd, populace, dregs, herd, plebs, scum, people, masses, multitude, rank-and-file, proletariat, polloi, flock, peasantry, trash, many, commonalty, canaille, lumpenproletariat, mob dated

Other

rout, ragtag and bobtail

Antonyms

royalty

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Definitions

  1. n. 1

    The mass of common people; the lowest class of populace.

Related words

Word family
rabble-rouser rabble-rousing
Phrases
rabble-rouser

Forms

Plural
rabbles → riff-raffs, crowds, populaces, herds…

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Rabble or Mob?

The rabble is despicable, worthless, purposeless; a mob may have effective desperate purpose.

J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)

Example sentences

  • crowd The crowd protested against racial discrimination.
  • populace The populace was in thrall to the dictator's whims.
  • dregs She poured some cold dregs of tea into the two cups.
  • rout The team's defense couldn't prevent the rout.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
rabblerising
crowdrising
populacesteady
dregsrising
routsteady

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
mob1
4 letters
many2, herd1, scum1, rout1
5 letters
crowd1, trash1, flock1, dregs1, plebs
6 letters
people2, masses2, polloi2
8 letters
populace3, canaille
9 letters
multitude3, peasantry3
10 letters
commonalty
11 letters
proletariat5

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (many2 = 2 syllables).