'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