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adj
Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Someone or something of low education or culture.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: art, arts
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adjective satellite
characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: lowbrowed, uncultivated
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noun
a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: philistine, anti-intellectual
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plebeian, pleb
History
A bahuvrihi compound of low + brow. An Americanism whose first use appears c. 1902. Refers to the (by that time discredited) pseudoscience of phrenology, which suggested that a person of low intelligence and sophistication would possess a lower brow-line than someone of greater intelligence and sophistication.
Across languages
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
