Philistine

Philistine
    adj 1: of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its
           people
    2: smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and
       cultural values [syn: {anti-intellectual}, {philistine}]
    n 1: a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn:
         {philistine}, {anti-intellectual}, {lowbrow}]
    2: a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia
       around the 12th century BC
    

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.
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   2. A bailiff. [Cant, Eng.] [Obs.] --Swift.
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   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.
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Philistine \Phi*lis"tine\, a.
   1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines.
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   2. Uncultured; commonplace.
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PHILISTINE, n.  One whose mind is the creature of its environment,
following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment.  He is
sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always
solemn.
    

138 Moby Thesaurus words for "Philistine":
      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

    

35 Moby Thesaurus words for "philistine":
      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