lowbrow

a. 教养浅薄的 n. 教养浅薄的人

发音

US /ˈloʊbɹaʊ/
其它
UK /ˈləʊbɹaʊ/

词形变化

lowbrows 复数 lowbrows more lowbrow 比较级 most lowbrow 最高级

别名

low-brow

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Someone or something of low education or culture.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.

    不可数 艺术 可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.

    The Three Stooges are known for their lowbrow slapstick humor consisting of foolish action for the masses.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 2

philistine anti-intellectual

上位词 2

pleb plebeian
形容词

同义词 1

uncultivated

近义相关 1

nonintellectual

词源

A bahuvrihi compound of low + brow. An Americanism whose first use appears c. 1902. Refers to the (by that time discredited) pseudoscience of phrenology, which suggested that a person of low intelligence and sophistication would possess a lower brow-line than someone of greater intelligence and sophistication.

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