PHILISTINE


Meaning of PHILISTINE in English

noun

a crass, prosaic, often priggish individual guided by material rather than artistic or intellectual values

philistines who opposed everything new and creative in art

Synonyms: Babbitt, boeotian, boob, middlebrow

Related Word: bourgeois; capitalist; materialist; boor, clown, lout, vulgarian

Antonyms: aesthete

Merriam Webster. Collegiate thesaurus English vocabulary.      Английский энциклопедический словарь тезаурус.