Low-brow

low·brow (l

brou

)

One having uncultivated tastes.

adj. also low·browed (-broud

)

Uncultivated; vulgar.

[low + (high)brow.]

lowbrow [ˈləʊˌbraʊ] Disparaging

a person who has uncultivated or nonintellectual tastes

adj also lowbrowed

of or characteristic of such a person

lowbrowism n

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Noun	1.	lowbrow - a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits anti-intellectual, philistine pleb, plebeian - one of the common people
Adj.	1.	lowbrow - characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes" lowbrowed, uncultivated nonintellectual - not intellectual

lowbrow

adjective unsophisticated, popular, shallow, lightweight, tabloid, inferior, easy-to-understand, mass-market, undemanding, insubstantial, unscholarly lowbrow novels

Translations

lowbrow [ˈləʊbraʊ]

A. ADJ → poco culto

B. N → persona f nada intelectual, persona f de poca cultura

lowbrow [ˈləʊbraʊ] adj → sans prétentions intellectuelles
low-budget [ˌləʊˈbʌdʒɪt] adj [film, project] → à petit budget
low-cal [ˌləʊˈkæl] adj → basses calories inv
low-calorie [ˌləʊˈkæləri] adj → basses calories inv
low-cost [ˌləʊˈkɒst] adj [airline, flight, housing] → bon marché inv
low-cut [ˌləʊˈkʌt] adj [dress] → décolleté(e)
low-down lowdown [ˈləʊdaʊn]

to give sb the low-down → mettre qn au courant
He gave me the low-down → Il m'a mis au courant.
to give sb the low-down on sth → mettre qn au courant de qch

adj (= despicable) → mesquin(e)

lowbrow [ˈləʊˌbraʊ]

1. adj (pej) (person) → poco colto/a; (interests, entertainment) → senza pretese intellettuali

2. n → persona poco colta or senza pretese intellettuali

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anti-intellectual barbarian demotic downmarket educated heroic highbrow ignoramus Low lowbrowed middlebrow Philistine pleb plebeian scholarly uncultivated uneducated	Byline: Paddy Shennan STEPHEN Fry gave his brain a rest to join in the low-brow fun of Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC2, Thursday) as guest captain. STEPHEN Fry gave his brain by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England) The great thing about Haynes though, is that she excels in dragging the low-brow river for comedy corpses equally as well as she mines the Latin origins of swear words. Do I detect a laugh? by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) Second, it moved the discourse away from a low-brow competition between cities and countries and toward encouraging camaraderie among members of the dance field as a whole. Can't we all be colleagues? by Hollander, Jonathan / Dance Magazine	low spirits low St Andrew's cross low status Low steam Low steel Low Sunday low tech low technology low temperature low tide low velocity drop low visibility operations low water Low water alarm Low water mark Low wine low-alcohol low-altitude low-altitude missile engagement zone low-altitude parachute extraction system low-backed low-ball low-beam low-birth-weight baby low-birth-weight infant Low-brow low-budget low-bush blueberry low-cal low-calorie low-calorie diet low-carbon steel low-ceilinged Low-church Low-churchism Low-churchman Low-churchmanship low-class low-context low-cost low-cut low-density low-density lipoprotein low-density polyethylene low-down low-emission low-end low-fat low-fat diet low-fat milk low-fi	low-angle scattering low-angle thrust Low-Angle X-Ray Diffraction low-approach system Low-Aspect Ratio Tokamaks low-backed Low-Background Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy low-ball low-ball Low-Ball Offer Low-Ball Offers low-balled low-balled low-balling low-balling low-balls low-balls Low-Band Structural Array low-bandwidth low-beam low-birth weight infant low-birth weight infant low-birth-weight baby low-birth-weight infant low-birth-weight infant low-birth-weight infant low-birth-weight infant Low-Bit Low-Boiling Blowing Agents low-boiling butene-2 Low-brow low-budget Low-Buoyant Density Cells low-bush blueberry Low-bypass turbofan Low-bypass turbofan low-cal low-calcium diet Low-Calcium Response Virulence low-caloric diet low-calorie low-calorie diet low-calorie diet low-calorie diet low-calorie diet Low-Calorie/Low-Fat Diet Low-Cap low-capacity microwave link Low-Carb-Anarchy Low-carbohydrate Low-carbohydrate diet Low-carbohydrate diet Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein Low-Carbohydrate, Low-Fiber Low-Carbon Building Accelerator Low-Carbon Fuel Standard low-carbon steel low-carbon steel low-ceilinged low-cholesterol diet Low-Church

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anti-intellectual
barbarian
demotic
downmarket
educated
heroic
highbrow
ignoramus
Low
lowbrowed
middlebrow
Philistine
pleb
plebeian
scholarly
uncultivated
uneducated

Byline: Paddy Shennan STEPHEN Fry gave his brain a rest to join in the low-brow fun of Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC2, Thursday) as guest captain.

STEPHEN Fry gave his brain by Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)

The great thing about Haynes though, is that she excels in dragging the low-brow river for comedy corpses equally as well as she mines the Latin origins of swear words.

Do I detect a laugh? by South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)

Second, it moved the discourse away from a low-brow competition between cities and countries and toward encouraging camaraderie among members of the dance field as a whole.

Can't we all be colleagues? by Hollander, Jonathan / Dance Magazine

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Low-brow

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Low-Buoyant Density Cells
low-bush blueberry
Low-bypass turbofan
Low-bypass turbofan
low-cal
low-calcium diet
Low-Calcium Response Virulence
low-caloric diet
low-calorie
low-calorie diet
low-calorie diet
low-calorie diet
low-calorie diet
Low-Calorie/Low-Fat Diet
Low-Cap
low-capacity microwave link
Low-Carb-Anarchy
Low-carbohydrate
Low-carbohydrate diet
Low-carbohydrate diet
Low-Carbohydrate, High-Protein
Low-Carbohydrate, Low-Fiber
Low-Carbon Building Accelerator
Low-Carbon Fuel Standard
low-carbon steel
low-carbon steel
low-ceilinged
low-cholesterol diet
Low-Church

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