middlebrow

Speech parts

1. middlebrow - Noun

2. middlebrow - Adjective

Meaning

someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

babbitt philistine popular simple square blue bourgeois accessible amateur follower boeotian mainstream everyman boob lowbrow
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Antonyms

lark philistine different difficult ace savant
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Hypernyms

individual person soul mortal somebody someone

Examples

It would be inaccurate to say that John Fowles is a middlebrow writer who sometimes hopes he is a highbrow: it has never occurred to him to believe otherwise. There is a difference, morally. Martin Amis

According to academic Greg Taylor, auteur theory also helped to popularize cult films when middlebrow audiences found an accessible way to approach avant-garde film criticism. Source: Internet

Penguin aimed at an educated middle class "middlebrow" audience. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

middlebox middlebreaker Middlebrook middlebrowed middlebrowism Middleburg