lowbrow
Plural: lowbrows
Noun
- A person lacking cultivated taste or intellectual interests; unrefined.
- a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
- Someone or something of low education or culture.
- An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.
Adjective Satellite
- characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes
- "lowbrow tastes"
Adj
- Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.
Examples
- Some considered anyone who didn’t know obscure words a lowbrow Words With Friends player.
- The Three Stooges are known for their lowbrow slapstick humor consisting of foolish action for the masses.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
anti-intellectual, lowbrowed, philistine, uncultivated, idiot
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 15
lowbrow: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlowbrow: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lowbrow: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary