Philistine GRE Vocabulary Flashcard in visual dictionary and thesaurus also included in 601 Words You Need to Know to Pass Your Exam with synonyms and antonyms
/ˈfɪl.ɪ.staɪn/ (adj & noun)
Definition
Noun: someone who is indifferent to intellectual matters including art, literature, culture or music, uncivilized person, bourgeois, boor, anti-intellectual person, materialist, lout, capitalist
Adjective: uncultured, uneducated, uncivilized, uncultivated, boorish, unenlightened, untutored, uninformed, unsophisticated
Example
“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated and philistine, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” ― Isaac Asimov, The Roving Mind
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Antonyms
cultured, intellectual, educated, erudite
Parts of speech
Noun: philistinism
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