philistine[noun]Synonyms:- boor, barbarian, ignoramus, lout, lowbrow, vulgarian, yahoo
[adjective]Synonyms:- uncultured, boorish, ignorant, lowbrow, tasteless, uncultivated, uneducated, unrefined
Antonyms: aesthete
Related Words: bourgeois,
capitalist,
materialist,
boor,
clown,
lout,
vulgarian [TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
Philistine noun in the Bible, a member of a race of people who lived in Palestine, and who were the enemies of the
Israelites [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
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] [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲