lowbrow
Lacking refined taste
Lowbrow describes entertainment, art, or taste that lacks intellectual sophistication—popular culture aimed at mass appeal rather than educated audiences.
A lowbrow comedy relies on crude jokes; lowbrow entertainment doesn't challenge its viewers.
The term carries condescension, implying the audience lacks refinement: Critics dismissed the show as lowbrow nonsense.
As a noun, a lowbrow is someone with unsophisticated tastes.
Tasteless, garish art
- pulpSoft wet mass
- campTemporary outdoor shelter site
- schlockLow-quality merchandise
- B-movieLow-budget, low-quality film
tabloid · exploitation · grindhouse · potboiler · drive-in · splatter · slasher · sexploitation
Exaggerated physical humor
- vaudevilleTheatrical variety entertainment
- burlesqueExaggerated mockery or risqué variety
- farceAbsurd, laughable situation
- sitcomEpisodic TV comedy series
wrestling · soap-opera · pantomime · sketch · prank · blooper · pratfall · gross-out
Unpolished, raw state
bawdy · scatological · off-color · gross-out · sophomoric · locker-room · crass · smutty
Advocate for ordinary citizens
- mass-marketFor widespread commercial sale
- mainstreamDominant cultural current
- popularWidely admired by many
- democraticGovernment by the people
everyman · blue-collar · working-class · grassroots · unpretentious · down-to-earth · plain-spoken · no-frills
tacky
Vulgar or slightly sticky
cheap · kitschy · garish · cheesy · campy · flashy · loud · vulgar · crass · unsophisticated
kitsch
Tasteless, garish art
B-movie · tabloid · exploitation · grindhouse · potboiler · drive-in · splatter · slasher · sexploitation · blaxploitation
slapstick
Exaggerated physical humor
- vaudevilleTheatrical variety entertainment
- burlesqueExaggerated mockery or risqué variety
- farceAbsurd, laughable situation
sitcom · wrestling · soap-opera · pantomime · sketch · prank · blooper · pratfall · gross-out · jackass
crude
Unpolished, raw state
potty · bawdy · scatological · off-color · gross-out · sophomoric · locker-room · crass · smutty · lewd
populist
Advocate for ordinary citizens
- mass-marketFor widespread commercial sale
- mainstreamDominant cultural current
- popularWidely admired by many
democratic · everyman · blue-collar · working-class · grassroots · unpretentious · down-to-earth · plain-spoken · no-frills · uncomplicated
- funnyfunny, comical, hilarious, humorous, amusing
- aestheticsaesthetics, aesthetic, beauty, beautiful, ugly
- unrefinedcrude, coarse, rough, unpolished, uncouth
- Kitschkitsch, kitschy, tacky, gaudy, garish
- risquerisque, racy, bawdy, ribald, suggestive
- speech registersformal, informal, casual, colloquial, vernacular
lowbrowhighbrow
Intellectually or artistically sophisticated
intellectual · sophisticated · cultured · cerebral · erudite
lowbrowrefined
Purified or cultured
cultivated · elegant · polished · aristocratic · well-bred