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lowbrow

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of lowbrow

lacking in refinement or good taste

  • at office gatherings his lowbrow humor often embarrassed his coworkers
Synonyms of lowbrow

coarse, common, crass, crude, gross, ill-bred, illiberal [archaic], incult, insensible, low, lowbred, raffish, rough, rough-hewn, roughneck, rude, rugged, tasteless, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, unpolished, unrefined, vulgar
Words Related to lowbrow

boorish, churlish, cloddish, clownish, loutish, ungentlemanly

clumsy, lubberly, lumpish, oafish

inconsiderate, indelicate, insensitive, thoughtless

countrified (also countryfied), provincial, rustic (also rustical), unsophisticated

graceless, inelegant, tacky

animallike, barbaric, barbarous, uncivilized

mannerless, unmannered, unmannerly
Near Antonyms of lowbrow

aristocratic, courtly, patrician

elegant, graceful, restrained

considerate, gracious, sensitive, thoughtful

citified, sophisticated, urbane
Antonyms of lowbrow

civilized, cultivated, cultured, genteel, polished, refined, smooth, tasteful, ultrarefined, well-bred

lowbrow

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of lowbrow

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

  • the townʼs lowbrows think that the schoolʼs music program is a complete waste of taxpayersʼ money
Synonyms of lowbrow

materialist, philistine
Words Related to lowbrow

Babbitt

capitalist, plutocrat

bastard, boob, boor, bounder, cad, chuff, churl, clown, creep, cretin, crud [slang], crumb [slang], cur, dirtbag [slang], fink, heel, jerk, joker, louse, lout, rat, rat fink, rotter, scum, scumbag [slang]
Near Antonyms of lowbrow

highbrow

middlebrow

egghead, intellectual, sage, thinker

brain, genius

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