[syn: anti-intellectual, philistine]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Philistine \Phi*lis"tine\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines.
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2. Uncultured; commonplace.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Philistine \Phi*lis"tine\, n. [L. Philistinus, Heb.
Phlishth[imac], pl. Phlishth[imac]m.]
1. A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast
region of southern Palestine.
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2. A bailiff. [Cant, Eng.] [Obs.] --Swift.
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3. A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one
without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and
sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to
selfish and material interests. [Recent] --M. Arnold.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Philistine
adj 1: of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its
people
2: smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and
cultural values [syn: anti-intellectual, philistine]
n 1: a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn:
philistine, anti-intellectual, lowbrow]
2: a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia
around the 12th century BC
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
138 Moby Thesaurus words for "Philistine":
Babbitt, Babbittish, Gothic, Middle American, anal character,
arriviste, barbarous, bookless, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher,
cad, callous, calloused, campy, carnal, carnal-minded,
case-hardened, churl, clown, common, commonplace,
compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist,
deceived, earthly, earthy, epicier, flinty, formalist,
functionally illiterate, general, grammarless, groundling,
guttersnipe, hard, hardened, hardhearted, heathen, high-camp,
homely, homespun, hoodwinked, hooligan, ill-bred fellow,
ill-educated, illiterate, impervious, indurated, insensitive,
inured, kitschy, led astray, looby, lout, low fellow, low-camp,
lowbrow, material, materialistic, methodologist, middle-class type,
misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, model child, mucker,
mundane, nonintellectual, nouveau riche, ordinary,
organization man, pachydermatous, pagan, parrot, parvenu, peasant,
pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, plebeian, pop, popular,
precisian, precisianist, profane, proof against, public, ribald,
rough, roughneck, rowdy, rude, ruffian, secular, sheep, square,
steeled against, steely, stony, teenybopper, temporal, terrestrial,
thick-skinned, trimmer, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned,
unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated,
unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned,
unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled,
unspiritual, unstudious, untaught, untutored, upstart, vernacular,
vulgarian, vulgarist, worldly, yes-man, yokel
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "philistine":
Babbitt, Boeotian, barbarian, boeotian, boob, boor, boorish,
boring, bourgeois, capitalist, clown, commercial, commonplace,
crass, dull, ignoramus, lout, lowbrow, materialist, materialistic,
middlebrow, narrow-minded, prosaic, tasteless, uncultivated,
uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, unlearned, unlettered,
unread, unrefined, untutored, vulgarian, yahoo
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment,
following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is
sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always
solemn.