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Definition of Lowbrow
1. Adjective. Characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes. "Lowbrow tastes"
2. Noun. A person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits.
Generic synonyms: Pleb, Plebeian
Derivative terms: Anti-intellectual, Philistine
Definition of Lowbrow
1. Adjective. Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture. ¹
2. Noun. Someone or something of low education or culture. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lowbrow
1. an uncultivated person [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lowbrow
Literary usage of Lowbrow
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Theatre Arts by Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit (1920)
"In all departments of American life, and particularly, perhaps, in the theatre,
the absurd pose of contempt for the 'highbrow' by the 'lowbrow' (and ..."
2. Expository Writing by Mervin James Curl (1919)
"High-lowbrow: Musical comedy, euchre, baseball, moving pictures, ... lowbrow:
Laura Jean Libbey, ham sandwich, have n't came, pitch, I and her, melodrama, ..."
3. Monthly Bulletin of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (1917)
"814 8774 America's coming-of-age. 1915. Huebsch. Contents: "Highbrow"
and "lowbrow."—"Our poets."—The precipitant.—Apotheosis of the "lowbrow. ..."
4. Leadership and Progress: And Other Essays of Progress, The Newspaper by Alfred Henry Lloyd (1922)
"... a headline or bold-faced caption, I would go on and say that intellectual and
cultural and moral professors have sometimes affected lowbrow, relaxing, ..."
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