Synonyms of lowbrow

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adjective

ˈlō-ˌbrau̇ 

as in vulgar

lacking in refinement or good taste

at office gatherings his lowbrow humor often embarrassed his coworkers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• vulgar
• crass
• rude
• common
• crude
• coarse
• gross
• low
• uncultured
• raffish
• tasteless
• clumsy
• rough
• uncouth
• rugged
• unrefined
• unpolished
• uncultivated
• rough-hewn
• illiberal
• roughneck
• lowbred
• ill-bred
• insensible
• boorish
• incult
• loutish
• clownish
• rustic
• ungentlemanly
• cloddish
• unsophisticated
• churlish
• indelicate
• thoughtless
• oafish
• lumpish
• insensitive
• tacky
• lubberly
• provincial
• countrified
• inconsiderate
• uncivilized
• inelegant
• barbaric
• barbarous
• graceless
• unmannerly
• unmannered
• mannerless
• animallike

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• civilized
• smooth
• cultured
• genteel
• polished
• tasteful
• aristocratic
• refined
• cultivated
• elegant
• patrician
• courtly
• well-bred
• graceful
• sensitive
• restrained
• sophisticated
• thoughtful
• ultrarefined
• gracious
• urbane
• considerate
• citified

lowbrow

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noun

ˈlō-ˌbrau̇ 

as in philistine

a person who is chiefly interested in material comfort and is hostile or indifferent to art and culture

the town's lowbrows think that the school's music program is a complete waste of taxpayers' money

Synonyms & Similar Words

• philistine
• materialist
• bastard
• clown
• jerk
• capitalist
• rat
• Babbitt
• creep
• plutocrat
• boor
• heel
• joker
• boob
• cad
• scum
• louse
• scumbag
• lout
• cur
• bounder
• dirtbag
• crud
• cretin
• rotter
• fink
• churl
• crumb
• chuff
• rat fink

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• highbrow
• intellectual
• sage
• thinker
• brain
• genius

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of lowbrow

Adjective

Two decades later, Shuter is using his Substack, Naughty but Nice, to capitalize on the eternal appetite for the sort of outrageously lowbrow material once only found in the pages of gossip rags like the Enquirer. — Dan Adler, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2026

The tension between highbrow and lowbrow comedy, and what is deemed acceptable by image-conscious Black middle-class audiences, continues to ignite fierce debate—nearly a century after Stepin Fetchit first appeared on-screen. — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026

Noun

Executives at NBCUniversal frame Bravo as a brand that represents a particular type of lowbrow-highbrow reality TV, and that even if the channel vanished, the brand could live on. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Jan. 2026

That balance of high- and lowbrow is absent in The Abandons. — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025