n. 1 boor, barbarian, yahoo, lowbrow, Boeotian, vulgarian, ignoramus, bourgeois, US Babbitt Charlotte never could abide the philistines who put love of money above love of culture
adj. 2 uncultured, uncultivated, tasteless, commonplace, unenlightened, unrefined, unread, unlettered, uneducated, untutored, unlearned, narrow-minded, anti-intellectual, boorish, lowbrow, dull, prosaic, boring, bourgeois, crass, commercial, materialistic The television companies were accused of pandering to the basest appetites of the philistine viewer