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Philistine

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Noun

1. anti-intellectual, lowbrow, philistine

a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

2. philistine

a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC

Adjective

3. philistine

of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people

4. anti-intellectual, philistine

smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Philistine

see synonyms of philistine
noun
1. 
a person who is unreceptive to or hostile towards culture, the arts, etc; a smug boorish person
2. 
a member of the non-Semitic people who inhabited ancient Philistia
adjective
3. (sometimes not capital)
boorishly uncultured
4. 
of or relating to the ancient Philistines

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Philistine

see synonyms of philistine
noun
1. 
a member of a non-Semitic people that lived in Philistia and repeatedly warred with the Israelites
2.  [usually p-]
a person regarded as smugly narrow and conventional in views and tastes, lacking in and indifferent to cultural and aesthetic values
adjective
3. 
of the ancient Philistines or their culture
4.  [often p-]
smugly conventional and lacking in culture

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Philistine

see synonyms of philistine
n.
1. A member of a people, perhaps of Aegean origin, who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC.
2. often philistine A person who is smugly indifferent or hostile to art and culture.
adj.
1. Of or relating to ancient Philistia.
2. often philistine Relating to or having the attitudes of a philistine: "our plastic, violent culture, with its philistine tastes and hunger for novelty" (Lloyd Rose).

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