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Philistine

//ˈfɪlɪstaɪn//

Synonyms for "philistine" (165 found)

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Informal (25)

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(4 words)

square hard rough general

Adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(4 words)

ordinary rowdy mundane commercial

Adj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(1 words)

Noun, verb, slang(4 words)

hooligan boob roughneck mucker

Adj, name, slang(2 words)

Name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Noun, slang(5 words)

groundling yokel cad guttersnipe bounder

Adj, adv, noun, slang(1 words)

Intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

General use (140)

Adj, name, verb(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb(3 words)

common bourgeois boring

Adj, noun, verb(8 words)

material commonplace profane upstart callous ruffian unread pedant

Adjective(40 words)

ignorant homely barbaric barbarous uncultivated tasteless prosaic earthy insensitive flinty carnal uncultured crass boorish materialistic impervious narrow-minded untutored case-hardened unenlightened

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Adj, noun(24 words)

popular homespun vernacular terrestrial barbarian temporal ribald peasant heathen parvenu perfectionist illiterate conformist plebeian capitalist uneducated formalist lowbrow nouveau riche nonintellectual

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vulgarian materialist middlebrow conventionalist

Adj, name(1 words)

Adj, verb(9 words)

unrefined hardened uncivilized unschooled case hardened unlearned inured indurated unbooked

Noun, verb(3 words)

clown lout ignoramus

Adj, name, noun(5 words)

gothic secular pagan trimmer boeotian

Noun(17 words)

sheep churl boor teenybopper yes man lowbrow arriviste burgher yes-man precisian precisianist conformer organization man methodologist Middle American vulgarist anti-intellectual

Name, noun, verb(1 words)

Adj, adv(1 words)

Name, noun(1 words)

Verb(7 words)

hoodwinked misinformed deceived steeled mistaught misinstructed led astray

proof against thick skinned functionally illiterate carnal-minded ill-educated unbooklearned plastic person epicier ill-bred fellow low fellow anal character compulsive character middle-class type model child steeled against Babbittish high-camp low-camp

Adjective(1 words)

anti-intellectual

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