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Definition of middlebrow in English: middlebrowadjective ˈmɪd(ə)lbraʊˈmɪdlˌbraʊ derogatory Demanding, involving, or having only a moderate degree of intellectual application. Example sentencesExamples - No thoughtful reader today would dismiss them as predominantly insipid or expressing nothing beyond a contemporary middlebrow understanding.
- They do not like things that the vast middle class, middlebrow population likes.
- These are sometimes referred to as romantic novels, but actually, as I understand it, they were more in the nature of middlebrow novels about middle-class family life.
- I know of no rational argument which convinces me that plays that are enjoyed and discussed by intellectuals are any better than plays which entertain a middlebrow audience.
- I wish that the middlebrow worshippers of the simple would read the nursery rhymes in the light of their original meaning!
Synonyms non-specialist, non-technical, non-professional, amateur, lay, lay person's, general, middle-of-the-road
noun ˈmɪd(ə)lbraʊˈmɪdlˌbraʊ derogatory A middlebrow person. Example sentencesExamples - It's already clear that there are a whole bunch of highbrows who talk only to themselves and a horde of middlebrows who simply try to out-bray one another.
- Highbrow journals like the Antioch Review and the Partisan Review condemned the middlebrows who controlled the mass media for fostering anti-intellectualism and mindless conformity.
- Since our highbrow elites are no longer capable of giving good advice, we middlebrows must use our own judgment to decide what art to buy.
- We are, for better and worse, middle class and middlebrow right down to our bones.
- So middlebrows appointed themselves as the defenders of popular taste against the authoritarian edicts of highbrow moral crusaders.
Definition of middlebrow in US English: middlebrowadjectiveˈmidlˌbrouˈmɪdlˌbraʊ derogatory (of art or literature or a system of thought) demanding or involving only a moderate degree of intellectual application, typically as a result of not deviating from convention. Example sentencesExamples - They do not like things that the vast middle class, middlebrow population likes.
- I wish that the middlebrow worshippers of the simple would read the nursery rhymes in the light of their original meaning!
- These are sometimes referred to as romantic novels, but actually, as I understand it, they were more in the nature of middlebrow novels about middle-class family life.
- I know of no rational argument which convinces me that plays that are enjoyed and discussed by intellectuals are any better than plays which entertain a middlebrow audience.
- No thoughtful reader today would dismiss them as predominantly insipid or expressing nothing beyond a contemporary middlebrow understanding.
Synonyms non-specialist, non-technical, non-professional, amateur, lay, lay person's, general, middle-of-the-road
nounˈmidlˌbrouˈmɪdlˌbraʊ derogatory A person who is capable of or enjoys only a moderate degree of intellectual effort. Example sentencesExamples - We are, for better and worse, middle class and middlebrow right down to our bones.
- Highbrow journals like the Antioch Review and the Partisan Review condemned the middlebrows who controlled the mass media for fostering anti-intellectualism and mindless conformity.
- So middlebrows appointed themselves as the defenders of popular taste against the authoritarian edicts of highbrow moral crusaders.
- Since our highbrow elites are no longer capable of giving good advice, we middlebrows must use our own judgment to decide what art to buy.
- It's already clear that there are a whole bunch of highbrows who talk only to themselves and a horde of middlebrows who simply try to out-bray one another.
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