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Philistine Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Philistine? [n] a non-Semitic inhabitant of ancient Philistia [n] a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [adj] smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values Synonyms \| Synonyms for Philistine: anti-intellectual \| lowbrow \| nonintellectual Related Terms \| Find terms related to Philistine: anal character \| arriviste \| Babbitt \| Babbittish \| barbarian \| barbarous \| Boeotian \| boob \| bookless \| boor \| boorish \| boring \| bounder \| bourgeois \| burgher \| cad \| callous \| calloused \| campy \| capitalist \| carnal \| carnal-minded \| case-hardened \| churl \| clown \| commercial \| common \| commonplace \| compulsive character \| conformer \| conformist \| conventionalist \| crass \| deceived \| dull \| earthly \| earthy \| epicier \| flinty \| formalist \| functionally illiterate \| general \| Gothic \| grammarless \| groundling \| guttersnipe \| hard \| hardened \| hardhearted \| heathen \| high-camp \| homely \| homespun \| hoodwinked \| hooligan \| ignoramus \| ill-bred fellow \| ill-educated \| illiterate \| impervious \| indurated \| insensitive \| inured \| kitschy \| led astray \| looby \| lout \| low fellow \| lowbrow \| low-camp \| material \| materialist \| materialistic \| methodologist \| Middle American \| middlebrow \| middle-class type \| misinformed \| misinstructed \| mistaught \| model child \| mucker \| mundane \| narrow-minded \| nonintellectual \| nouveau riche \| ordinary \| organization man \| pachydermatous \| pagan \| parrot \| parvenu \| peasant \| pedant \| perfectionist \| plastic person \| plebeian \| pop \| popular \| precisian \| precisianist \| profane \| proof against \| prosaic \| public \| ribald \| rough \| roughneck \| rowdy \| rude \| ruffian \| secular \| sheep \| square \| steeled against \| steely \| stony \| tasteless \| teenybopper \| temporal \| terrestrial \| thick-skinned \| trimmer \| unbooked \| unbookish \| unbooklearned \| unbriefed \| uncultivated \| uncultured \| unedified \| uneducated \| unenlightened \| unerudite \| unguided \| uninstructed \| unintellectual \| unlearned \| unlettered \| unliterary \| unread \| unrefined \| unscholarly \| unschooled \| unspiritual \| unstudious \| untaught \| untutored \| upstart \| vernacular \| vulgarian \| vulgarist \| worldly \| yahoo \| yes-man \| yokel See Also \| denizen \| dweller \| inhabitant \| pleb \| plebeian Philistine In Webster's Dictionary \Philis"tine\, n. [L. Philistinus, Heb. Phlishth[=i], pl. Phlishth[=i]m.] 1. A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine. 2. A bailiff. [Cant, Eng.] [Obs.] --Swift. 3. A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to selfish and material interests. [Recent] --M. Arnold. \Philis"tine\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines. 2. Uncultured; commonplace.

Philistine Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Philistine?

[n] a non-Semitic inhabitant of ancient Philistia
[n] a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
[adj] smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values

Synonyms | Synonyms for Philistine: anti-intellectual | lowbrow | nonintellectual

Philistine In Webster's Dictionary

\Phi*lis"tine\, n. [L. Philistinus, Heb.
Phlishth[=i], pl. Phlishth[=i]m.]
1. A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast
   region of southern Palestine.

2. A bailiff. [Cant, Eng.] [Obs.] --Swift.

3. A person deficient in liberal culture and refinement; one
   without appreciation of the nobler aspirations and
   sentiments of humanity; one whose scope is limited to
   selfish and material interests. [Recent] --M. Arnold.


\Phi*lis"tine\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines.

2. Uncultured; commonplace.

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