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lowbrow

[ noun loh-brou; adjective loh-brou ]

noun

  1. a person who is uninterested, uninvolved, or uneducated in intellectual activities or pursuits.


adjective

  1. being a lowbrow:

    that lowbrow idiot.

  2. of, relating to, or proper to a lowbrow:

    lowbrow entertainment.

lowbrow

/ ˈləʊˌbraʊ /

noun

  1. a person who has uncultivated or nonintellectual tastes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of or characteristic of such a person
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

lowbrow

  1. Unsophisticated, uncultured, vulgar: “My blind date took me to a mud-wrestling match. What a lowbrow evening!”


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Derived Forms

  • ˈlowˌbrowism, noun
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Other Words From

  • lowbrowism noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of lowbrow1

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10; low 1 + brow
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Example Sentences

Will the next few hours be both didactic and entertaining, providing us with ample high and lowbrow cocktail party fodder?

We mixed highbrow and lowbrow, the celebrated and the not-yet-celebrated.

As with Beck and Limbaugh, hordes of advertisers began pulling out over its edgy format and occasional lowbrow content.

Highbrow 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.

It was one of our chief delights to watch Frankling grind his teeth when some lowbrow—as he called them—drew her name.

When I came to I found myself in that room, with one lowbrow on guard.

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