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lowbrow
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lowbrow has 1 sense
- lowbrow(n = noun.person) anti-intellectual, philistine - a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits; Array is a kind of pleb, plebeian
Derived form adjective lowbrow1
Adjective lowbrow has 1 sense
- lowbrow(s = adj.all) lowbrowed, uncultivated - characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes" Derived form noun lowbrow1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
lowbrow, adj. & n.
--adj. not highly intellectual or cultured.
--n. a lowbrow person.
--adj. not highly intellectual or cultured.
--n. a lowbrow person.
Derivative
lowbrowed adj.
THESAURUS
lowbrow
Gothic, Philistine, barbarous, bookless, dabbler, deceived, dilettante, dunce, fool, functionally illiterate, grammarless, greenhorn, greeny, heathen, hoodwinked, ignoramus, ill-educated, illiterate, illiterati, know-nothing, led astray, middlebrow, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, no scholar, nonintellectual, pagan, puddinghead, rude, tenderfoot, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unintelligentsia, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unstudious, untaught, untutored
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