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Philistine 音标拼音: [f'ɪləst ,in] n. 非利士人,仇敌,俗气的人
a. 非利士的,俗气的,无教养的 非利士人,仇敌,俗气的人非利士的,俗气的,无教养的 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 [ synonym: { anti- intellectual}, { philistine}] n 1: a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [ synonym: { philistine}, { anti- intellectual}, { lowbrow}] 2: a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BCPhilistine \ Phi* lis" tine\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to the Philistines. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Uncultured; commonplace. [ 1913 Webster]
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] 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
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