Philistine – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Philistine
adj.
uncivilized, uncultured; crude, rough, obscene, vulgar
n.
member of the non-Semitic people who inhabited southwestern Palestine during Biblical times
Philistines
The
Philistines (, , , or ; ,
Plištim) were a people described in the
Bible.
Philistine
Noun
1. a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient philistia around the 12th century BC
(hypernym) inhabitant, dweller, denizen, indweller
Adjective
1. of or relatin to ancient Philistia or the the culture of the Philistines
(pertainym) Philistine
philistine
Noun
1. a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits
(synonym) lowbrow
(hypernym) plebeian, pleb
Adjective
1. smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values
(synonym) anti-intellectual
(similar) nonintellectual
Philistine
(n.)
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.
(n.)
A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine.
(n.)
A bailiff.
(a.)
Uncultured; commonplace.
(a.)
Of or pertaining to the Philistines.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
Philistine
Synonyms and related words:
Babbitt, Babbittish, Gothic, Middle American, anal character, arriviste, barbarous, bookless, boor, bounder, bourgeois, burgher, cad, callous, calloused, campy, carnal, carnal-minded, case-hardened, churl, clown, common, commonplace, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, conventionalist, deceived, earthly, earthy, epicier, flinty, formalist, functionally illiterate, general, grammarless, groundling, guttersnipe, hard, hardened, hardhearted, heathen, high-camp, homely, homespun, hoodwinked, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, ill-educated, illiterate, impervious, indurated, insensitive, inured, kitschy, led astray, looby, lout, low fellow, low-camp, lowbrow, material, materialistic, methodologist, middle-class type, misinformed, misinstructed, mistaught, model child, mucker, mundane, nonintellectual, nouveau riche, ordinary, organization man, pachydermatous, pagan, parrot, parvenu, peasant, pedant, perfectionist, plastic person, plebeian, pop, popular, precisian, precisianist, profane, proof against, public, ribald, rough, roughneck, rowdy, rude, ruffian, secular, sheep, square, steeled against, steely, stony, teenybopper, temporal, terrestrial, thick-skinned, trimmer, unbooked, unbookish, unbooklearned, unbriefed, uncultivated, uncultured, unedified, uneducated, unerudite, unguided, uninstructed, unintellectual, unlearned, unlettered, unliterary, unread, unrefined, unscholarly, unschooled, unspiritual, unstudious, untaught, untutored, upstart, vernacular, vulgarian, vulgarist, worldly, yes-man, yokel
philistine
Synonyms and related words:
Babbitt, Boeotian, barbarian, boeotian, boob, boor, boorish, boring, bourgeois, capitalist, clown, commercial, commonplace, crass, dull, ignoramus, lout, lowbrow, materialist, materialistic, middlebrow, narrow-minded, prosaic, tasteless, uncultivated, uncultured, uneducated, unenlightened, unlearned, unlettered, unread, unrefined, untutored, vulgarian, yahoo
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
