English Dictionary

Definition of “lowbrow”

lowbrow (ˈləʊˌbraʊ ) (derogatory)

Also: lowbrowed

ˈlowˌbrowism noun

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

And if Branagh was too lowbrow for the highbrow, he also missed his moment as the voice of theatrical youth.

Times, Sunday Times (2002)

ITV2, 11.30pm (preview ITV1, 11pm) A new dare show billed as "outrageous" -for which read " lowbrow ".

Times, Sunday Times (2002)

Ideally this Government would like all the arts to resemble rock music; relentlessly lowbrow , vastly profitable, nakedly populist.

Susie Gilbert and Jay Shir A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945 (2003)

Its fusion of high art and lowbrow TV has delighted critics and audiences alike.

canada.com (2004)

The accompanying photo consisted mainly of smoke and men running, like the cover of a lowbrow thriller.

Aldiss, Brian Somewhere East of Life

`Then I got interested in music and football was considered very lowbrow in those days when we were trying to be artists," Freud laughs.

Misc (1999)

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