lowbrow.
Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
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.
Someone or something of low education or culture.
An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.
Where this word comes from
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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