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Word | Philistine |
Russian Meaning | Филистимлянин, филистер, обыватель, мещанин, враг, мещанский |
smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values / a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC / narrow-minded person; uncultured and exclusively interested in material gain / a member of a non-Semitic people of ancient southern Palestine, who came into conflict with the Israelites during the 12th and 11th centuries bc. / a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia / often not capitalized a: a person who is guided by materialism and is usually disdainful of intellectual or artistic values b: one uninformed in a special area of knowledge, | |
Usage | ⇒ Navya dismissed critics of her work as philistines ⇒ We need more men and women of culture and enlightenment; we have too many philistines among us. ⇒ I am a complete philistine when it comes to paintings |
Synonyms | barbarian, boorish, crass, lowbrow, uncivilized, uncultured, rude, uncultivated, barbaric, boor, rough, tasteless, unrefined, yahoo, bourgeois, coarse, crude, gross, vulgar, vulgarian, |
Antonyms | cultured, brain, debonair, egghead, genius, highbrow, intellectual, thinker, academic, accomplished, blue, brainiac, civilized, cosmopolitan, couth, cultivated, geeky, genteel, intellect, long-haired, |
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