English Explanatory Dictionary

no-brow

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Completely devoid of cultural or educational value.
  2. Located outside the traditional taste hierarchy, blending highbrow, middlebrow, and lowbrow.

Word forms

no-brow more no-brow most no-brow nobrow

Etymology

Blend of no + lowbrow. Popularized by writer John Seabrook in Nobrow: the culture of marketing, the marketing of culture (2000).

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