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Synonyms and antonyms of lowbrow in English

lowbrow

adjective
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PLEBEIAN

Synonyms

plebeian
vulgar
coarse
common
low-class
unrefined
uncultivated
uncultured
commonplace
popular
banal
ordinary
low
mean
base
of the common people
lowborn
proletarian
bourgeois

Antonyms

highbrow
refined
cultivated
cultured
educated
upper class
aristocratic
royal
elevated

PHILISTINE

Synonyms

bourgeois
conventional
conformist
commonplace
prosaic
philistine
uncultured
uncultivated
unrefined
uneducated
unenlightened
untutored
unlettered
uninformed
ignorant
anti-intellectual

BARBARIAN

Synonyms

barbarian
uncultivated
uncultured
crude
philistine
unsophisticated
provincial
uncouth
boorish

Antonyms

cultivated
cultured
highbrow
intellectual
refined
literate
humane
liberal

lowbrow

noun

BARBARIAN

Synonyms

barbarian
anti-intellectual
philistine
peasant
vulgarian
illiterate
ignoramus
know-nothing
troglodyte
yahoo
boor

Antonyms

highbrow
intellectual
connoisseur
sophisticate
literati
plural
cognoscenti
plural

PHILISTINE

Synonyms

philistine
cultural ignoramus
barbarian
savage
yahoo
bourgeois
conformist
conventionalist

Antonyms

intellectual
highbrow
egghead
Slang

IGNORAMUS

Synonyms

ignoramus
simpleton
fool
dunce
know-nothing
numskull
nitwit
illiterate
 Synonyms for lowbrow from Random House Roget's College Thesaurus, Revised and Updated Edition © 2000 Random House, Inc.

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low-spirited
low/poor/bad quality
lowborn
lowbred
lowbrow
lowdown
lower
lower alimentary canal
lower and raise

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