lowbrow

1. 1.

   a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

   Synonymsphilistineanti-intellectual

   Broaderplebeian

1. 1.

   characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes

   “lowbrow tastes”

   Synonymslowbroweduncultivated

   Similarnonintellectual

Other forms of lowbrow

plural

lowbrows·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lowbrow

What does lowbrow mean?

lowbrow means "a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lowbrow?

lowbrow has 2 syllables: low-brow. The stress falls on "low".

What is another word for lowbrow?

Close synonyms include philistine, anti-intellectual, lowbrowed, uncultivated. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lowbrow a common word?

lowbrow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.