lowbrow
a person who is uninterested, uninvolved, or uneducated in intellectual activities or pursuits.
being a lowbrow: that lowbrow idiot.
of, relating to, or proper to a lowbrow: lowbrow entertainment.
Origin of lowbrow
1Other words from lowbrow
- lowbrowism, noun
Words Nearby lowbrow
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How to use lowbrow in a sentence
Will the next few hours be both didactic and entertaining, providing us with ample high and lowbrow cocktail party fodder?
From ‘American Hustle’ to ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ Why Is Hollywood Hooked On Embellishing the Truth? | Marina Watts, Marlow Stern | January 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe mixed highbrow and lowbrow, the celebrated and the not-yet-celebrated.
Charles Michener on Newsweek’s Cultural Edge | Charles Michener | December 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTAs with Beck and Limbaugh, hordes of advertisers began pulling out over its edgy format and occasional lowbrow content.
‘Evocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie’: The Pundit’s Rise and Fall | Marlow Stern | April 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHighbrow meets lowbrow when the staff of NPR covers “Telephone.”
As does, perhaps, the so-called lowbrow School, of whom he is a persuasive representative.
As I was saying when this lowbrow interrupted me, I was thinking that it might be a good idea to go nutting.
The Radio Boys at Mountain Pass | Allen ChapmanIt was one of our chief delights to watch Frankling grind his teeth when some lowbrow—as he called them—drew her name.
At Good Old Siwash | George FitchWhen I came to I found myself in that room, with one lowbrow on guard.
Bert Wilson on the Gridiron | J. W. Duffield
British Dictionary definitions for lowbrow
/ (ˈləʊˌbraʊ) derogatory /
a person who has uncultivated or nonintellectual tastes
of or characteristic of such a person
Derived forms of lowbrow
- lowbrowism, noun
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Cultural definitions for lowbrow
Unsophisticated, uncultured, vulgar: “My blind date took me to a mud-wrestling match. What a lowbrow evening!”
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