Usually means: Cultural content lacking sophistication, depth.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word lowbrow:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. lowbrow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lowbrow: Merriam-Webster
  3. lowbrow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lowbrow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lowbrow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lowbrow: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lowbrow, lowbrow: Wordnik
  8. lowbrow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lowbrow: Wiktionary
  10. lowbrow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lowbrow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lowbrow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lowbrow: Dictionary.com
  14. lowbrow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lowbrow (art movement), Lowbrow (disambiguation), Lowbrow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. lowbrow: Rhymezone
  17. lowbrow: FreeDictionary.org
  18. lowbrow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. lowbrow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lowbrow: Netlingo
  2. lowbrow: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lowbrow: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.
noun:  (countable) Someone or something of low education or culture.
noun:  (uncountable, art) An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.

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