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A person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
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lowbrow
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture. n. Someone or something of low education or culture.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes" [syn: lowbrowed , uncultivated ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ lowbrow entertainment EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ It was pleasant enough: a bit too lowbrow for my cynical taste, but no matter. ▪ This leaves him precariously balancing his highbrow and lowbrow selves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also low-brow , "person who is not intellectual," 1902, from low (adj.) + brow . Said to have been coined by U.S. journalist Will Irwin (1873-1948). A low brow on a man as a sign of primitive qualities was common in 19c. fiction, but it also was considered ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lowbrow , or lowbrow art , describes an underground visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles, California , area in the late 1970s. It is a populist art movement with its cultural roots in underground comix , punk music , and hot-rod cultures of ...
Usage examples of lowbrow.
Jag, Puma Lee-sex queen, fashion setter and homicidal maniac-ripped into yet another two-pound bag of lowbrow snack food.
It was a hard, bitter road he was about to walk, and everyone would line the road to stone him, eggheads and Lowbrows, scientists and laymen.
We find bits and pieces of their solutions that survived the time of flames when the Lowbrows rebelled and ran the eggheads, and the time of starvation and time of troubles that followed when almost four billion men and women and children died of starvation and privation and violence.
The cultural differences are very deep, perhaps irreconcilable, and the Americans obviously have the profoundest contempt for England, rather like the contempt which the ordinary lowbrow Englishman has for the Latin races.
He looked rather ridiculous up there talking about things like the sociological significance of protest and the psychological content of lynching, about the values of the Lowbrow movement and the hypocrisy of Senator Bartlett and his Subcommittee, about the importance of the scientific method and the necessity for the detachment of the scientist.