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ˈloʊˌbraʊlow·brow

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. philistine, anti-intellectual, lowbrowadjective

    a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

  2. lowbrow, lowbrowed, uncultivatedadjective

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

    "lowbrow tastes"

Wiktionary

  1. lowbrownoun

    Someone or something of low education or culture.

  2. lowbrowadjective

    Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.

    The Three Stooges are known for their lowbrow slapstick humor consisting of foolish action for the masses.

  3. Etymology: From low and brow, Americanism, circa 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.

ChatGPT

  1. lowbrow

    Lowbrow refers to something that is not intellectually challenging or sophisticated, often associated with popular culture and catering to the tastes of the mass audience. It is often used to describe certain kinds of art, literature, music, cinema, or entertainment that are considered of inferior quality, cheap, simplistic, or lacking in cultural refinement.

Wikidata

  1. Lowbrow

    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 the street. It is also often known by the name pop surrealism. Lowbrow art often has a sense of humor - sometimes the humor is gleeful, sometimes impish, and sometimes it is a sarcastic comment. Most lowbrow artworks are paintings, but there are also toys, digital art, and sculpture.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lowbrow in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lowbrow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of lowbrow in a Sentence

  1. Henry Miller:

    One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

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