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Lowbrow

//ˈloʊbɹaʊ// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something of low education or culture. countable
  2. 2
    a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits wordnet
  3. 3
    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

Etymology

Etymology 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.

Etymology 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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