'Philistine' definitions:
Definition of 'Philistine'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people
adjective
Smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values [syn: anti-intellectual, philistine]
noun
A person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn: philistine, anti-intellectual, lowbrow]
noun
A member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
Definition of 'Philistine'
From: GCIDE
- Philistine \Phi*lis"tine\, n. [L. Philistinus, Heb. Phlishth[imac], pl. Phlishth[imac]m.]
- 1. A native or an inhabitant of ancient Philistia, a coast region of southern Palestine. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A bailiff. [Cant, Eng.] [Obs.] --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Philistine'
From: GCIDE
- Philistine \Phi*lis"tine\, a.
- 1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Uncultured; commonplace. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'Philistine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anal character,
- arriviste,
- Babbitt,
- Babbittish,
- 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,
- Gothic,
- 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 American,
- 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
Synonyms of 'philistine'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Babbitt,
- barbarian,
- Boeotian,
- 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