philistine
[noun]
Synonyms:
- boor, barbarian, ignoramus, lout, lowbrow, vulgarian, yahoo
[adjective]
Synonyms:
- uncultured, boorish, ignorant, lowbrow, tasteless, uncultivated, uneducated, unrefined

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Antonyms: aesthete
Related Words: bourgeois, capitalist, materialist, boor, clown, lout, vulgarian

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Philistine noun
in the Bible, a member of a race of people who lived in Palestine, and who were the enemies of the Israelites

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phil‧is‧tine /ˈfɪləstaɪn, ˈfɪlɪstaɪn $ -stiːn/ noun [countable]
[Date: 1800-1900; Origin: Philistine; because the Philistines were thought by the Israelites in the Bible to be uncivilized people]
someone who does not like or understand art, literature, music etc:
When it comes to art, the man’s a philistine.
—philistine adjective
—philistinism noun [uncountable]

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