philistine
/FIL-ih-steen/nouna person hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts
“Only a philistine tours the museum at a jog.”
- Synonyms
- boor, barbarian, lowbrow
- Antonyms
- aesthete, connoisseur
- Memory hook
- Philistine: the arts' proverbial enemy camp.
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