Synonyms for lowbrow
- philistine
- primitive
- rough
- wild
- barbaric
- barbarous
- boorish
- brutal
- coarse
- cruel
- inhuman
- merciless
- rude
- uncivil
- uncivilized
- uncouth
- uncultivated
- uncultured
- unsophisticated
- untamed
- vicious
- vulgar
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When I came to I found myself in that room, with one lowbrow on guard.
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.
WORD ORIGIN
also low-brow, "person who is not intellectual," 1902, from low (adj.) + brow. Said to have been coined by U.S. journalist Will Irwin (1873-1948). A low brow on a man as a sign of primitive qualities was common in 19c. fiction, but it also was considered a mark of classical beauty in women.
As an adjective from 1913.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR LOWBROW
barbarian
adjectivecrude, savagebarbaric
adjectivecrude, savagecrassest
adjectivecoarse, insensitiveuncultivated
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