adjective
- not intellectual or cultured; appealing to popular or unsophisticated tastes
Usage: often used disparagingly
noun
- a person who is not intellectual or interested in culture
Usage: often used disparagingly
Examples
- The critics dismissed the movie as lowbrow entertainment.
- She enjoys both highbrow literature and lowbrow reality TV shows.
- The magazine targets a lowbrow audience with celebrity gossip.
- He’s such a lowbrow that he’s never been to an art museum.
- The comedy club featured lowbrow humor that made everyone laugh.
- Don’t be such a cultural snob – there’s nothing wrong with lowbrow fun.
- The lowbrow in him preferred action movies to foreign films.