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lowbrow

/noun loh-brou; adjective loh-brou/US // noun ˈloʊˌbraʊ; adjective ˈloʊˈbraʊ //UK // (ˈləʊˌbraʊ) derogatory //

低级趣味,低眉毛,低俗,低眉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is uninterested, uninvolved, or uneducated in intellectual activities or pursuits.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : being a lowbrow: that lowbrow idiot.
    • : of, relating to, or proper to a lowbrow: lowbrow entertainment.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inbarbarian

Examples

  • Will the next few hours be both didactic and entertaining, providing us with ample high and lowbrow cocktail party fodder?

  • We mixed highbrow and lowbrow, the celebrated and the not-yet-celebrated.

  • As with Beck and Limbaugh, hordes of advertisers began pulling out over its edgy format and occasional lowbrow content.

  • Highbrow meets lowbrow when the staff of NPR covers “Telephone.”

  • As does, perhaps, the so-called Lowbrow School, of whom he is a persuasive representative.

  • As I was saying when this lowbrow interrupted me, I was thinking that it might be a good idea to go nutting.

  • It was one of our chief delights to watch Frankling grind his teeth when some lowbrow—as he called them—drew her name.

  • When I came to I found myself in that room, with one lowbrow on guard.