lowbrow

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈləʊbɹaʊ/    美 /ˈloʊbɹaʊ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone or something of low education or culture. countable
  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. uncountable
形容词 adj.
  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.

词形变化

more lowbrow comparative most lowbrow superlative low-brow alternative lowbrows plural low-brow alternative

词汇关系

近义词
idiot
反义词
highbrow
相关词
highbrow middlebrow no-brow

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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