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Definition: Lowbrow |
LowbrowAdjective1. Characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes; "lowbrow tastes". Noun1. A person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: LowbrowSynonyms: lowbrowed (adj), uncultivated (adj), philistine (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Lowbrow |
| English words defined with "lowbrow": middlebrow. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Well, actually I thought I'd snag a young medical student and get him to marry me before he realizes what a lowbrow loser I am. (Jack & Jill; writing credit: Kathy Giaconia) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lowbrow (2003) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
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| "Lowbrow" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Lowbrow" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 83.33% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 12 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "lowbrow": lowbrow uncultivated. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lowbrow | 26 |
lowbrow art | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "lowbrow"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pa prirje intelektuale, njeri pa kulturë, i pakulturë (illiterate, low-browed). (various references) | |
Arabic | تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, piteous, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ضئيل (bantam, exiguous, fractional, imperceptible, insignificant, little, meager, meagre, nominal, piddling, puny, sketchy, slender, sparse, stingy, thin, wretched), شخص غير طموح, شخص عديم الثقافة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | неинтелектуален, безкултурен човек, популярен (hot, pop, popular). (various references) | |
Czech | nevzdìlanec (low brow), nevzdìlaný (common, ignorant, illiterate, ruddy, uncultured, uneducated). (various references) | |
Farsi | دارای سلیقه پست , بیسواد (Unread), بی فرهنگ , بی ادب (Barbaric, Brusque, Coarse, Discourteous, Impolite, Indecorous, Irrespective, Irreverent, Lowly, Plebeian, Uncivil, Uncivilized, Unmannered, Unmennerly). (various references) | |
German | unbedarft (benighted, brainless, clueless, cluelessly, simple minded, undiscerning). (various references) | |
Greek | μικρήσ μορφώσεωσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | nyárspolgári (philistine, philistinism), nyárspolgár (Babbitt, petty bourgeois, philistine), nem kifinomult ízlésű, nem intelligens (to want intelligence, unintelligent, wanting in intelligence). (various references) | |
Italian | volgare (broad, caddish, coarse, common, everyday, gross, low, Randy, rude, trivial, vernacular, vulgar), persona senza cultura, grossolano (chubby, coarse, common, crass, dirty, earthy, gross, ungraceful). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ロート油 (aerial tram, load, Lord, low-fat, low-heeled shoes, low-necked collar, Rhode Island, rhododendron, road, road game, road holding, road map, road mirror, road race, road test, road work, roadracer, roadshow, robe, robe decolletee, roman, rope, ropeway, Turkey red oil). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ローブラウ . (various references) | |
Manx | cadjin (colloquial, commonplace, normal, popular, unexceptional). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | owbrowlay.(various references) | |
Romanian | persoanã fãrã pretenţii de intelectual, cu gusturi primitive. (various references) | |
Russian | непритязательный (homely, unassuming, unpretentious), малообразованный (low-browed, unbooked). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | prost (coarse, common, commoner, easy, folksy, homely, homespun, inurbane, low-bred, mere, rude, simple, trivial, underbred, vulgar), grub (boorish, brusque, bumptious, coarse, crude, harsh, indelicate, rough, rough and ready, rough and tumble). (various references) | |
Spanish | de poca cultura. (various references) | |
Swedish | obildad (bookless, ignorant, illiterate, letterless, low-browed, rude, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, untaught). (various references) | |
Thai | ไม่ไ"้รับการอบรม, ผู้ไม่ไ"้รับการอบรม. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | невибагливий (homely, promiscuous, unassuming, unpretending), малоосвічений. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người ít học, ít học. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "lowbrow": lowbrows. (additional references) | |
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"Lowbrow" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Liebrow. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-l-o-o-r-w-w" | |
-3 letters: blow, bolo, boor, bowl, broo, brow, lobo, obol, wool. | |
-4 letters: boo, bow, bro, lob, loo, low, orb, owl, rob, row, woo, wow. | |
-5 letters: bo, lo, or, ow, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-l-o-o-r-w-w" | |
+1 letter: lowbrows. | |
+3 letters: snowblower. | |
+4 letters: snowblowers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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