What is another word for philistine?
222 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ f_ˈɪ_l_ɪ_s_t_ˌaɪ_n], [ fˈɪlɪstˌa͡ɪn], [ fˈɪlɪstˌaɪn]Table of Contents
Similar words for philistine:- barbarian (adjective)
- bourgeois (adjective)
- coarse (adjective)
- common (adjective)
- crass (adjective)
- die-hard (adjective)
- uncivilized (adjective)
- uncultured (adjective)
- vulgar (adjective)
- anti-intellectual (noun)
- barbarian (noun)
- boor (noun)
- conformist (noun)
- person (noun)
- philistine (noun)
- other synonyms
- realistic
Definition for Philistine:
Synonyms for Philistine:
adj.
•barbarian (adjective) •bourgeois (adjective)- most old-line,
- middleclass,
- more old-line,
- more old line,
- hidebound,
- most old line,
- more oldline,
- most oldline,
- materialistic.
- indelicate,
- roughneck,
- blue,
- mean,
- lowbred,
- loutish,
- tasteless,
- raunchy,
- off-color,
- barbaric,
- gross,
- impolite,
- impure,
- base,
- improper,
- unrefined,
- dirty,
- Incult,
- low,
- lowdown and dirty,
- tacky,
- filthy,
- crude,
- rough,
- gruff,
- boorish,
- offensive,
- inelegant,
- raffish,
- foul,
- earthy,
- foul-mouthed,
- unpolished,
- nasty,
- scatological,
- ribald,
- obscene,
- immodest,
- bawdy,
- uncivil,
- raw,
- vulgar,
- rude,
- cheap,
- smutty.
- low grade,
- secondrate,
- prosier,
- shoddy,
- prosiest,
- most characterless,
- hackest,
- secondclass,
- prosy,
- second-rate,
- most inferior,
- second-class,
- un-distinguished,
- most secondrate,
- un distinguished,
- lowgrade,
- middling,
- second rate,
- more characterless.
- more bovine,
- in elegant,
- un refined,
- witless,
- lumpish,
- in-elegant,
- in delicate,
- more blundering,
- un-refined,
- oafish,
- in-delicate,
- most blundering,
- most bovine.
- more extremist,
- ultra-conservative,
- in flexible,
- un-reconstructed,
- standpat,
- un reconstructed,
- ultra conservative,
- die hard,
- most unreconstructed,
- most extremist,
- unreconstructed,
- most fogyish,
- more standpat,
- immovable,
- dyed in the wool,
- most standpat,
- fogyish,
- more fogyish,
- most intransigent,
- toriest,
- torier,
- more unreconstructed,
- in-flexible.
- more illbred,
- un-mannered,
- un-godliest,
- more ill-bred,
- un mannered,
- most illbred,
- most mannerless,
- un godly,
- ill bred,
- un conscionable,
- un-educated,
- most ill-bred,
- un-holiest,
- mannerless,
- more mannerless,
- dis respectful,
- most brutish,
- most ill bred,
- dis courteous,
- un-godlier,
- un educated,
- un-conscionable,
- un-civilized,
- more brutish,
- more ill bred,
- un-godly,
- un-holy,
- un holiest,
- un controlled,
- dis-courteous,
- un-holier,
- un godlier,
- un-controlled,
- un godliest,
- un civilized,
- un holier,
- un holy,
- un polished,
- dis-respectful.
- graceless,
- depraved,
- in bad taste,
- tactless,
- barnyard,
- colloquial,
- animal,
- cockney,
- ignoble,
- degraded,
- tawdry,
- profane,
- outlandish,
- ignominious,
- revolting,
- chintzy,
- unseemly,
- gaudy,
- unbecoming,
- sleazy,
- coarse,
- glaring,
- garish,
- coarse-grained,
- salty,
- clumsy,
- idiomatic,
- sordid,
- repulsive,
- broad,
- rank,
- brazen,
- homespun,
- undignified,
- shameless,
- scandalous.
n.
•anti-intellectual (noun) •barbarian (noun)- troglodyte,
- hun,
- Huns,
- troglodytes,
- vandal.
Other synonyms:
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- uncultivated,
- churl.
Antonyms for Philistine:
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adj.
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n.
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boor
gentleman.
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Other antonyms:
intellectual, sage, thinker, brain, middlebrow, highbrow, egghead.
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boor
Philistine Sentence Examples:
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Philistine to the last degree.
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More often they leave in the natural course of things, or grow weary of their pose - which has, indeed, not made them popular - and return after the holidays frankly and unaffectedly Philistine.
Hyponym for Philistine:
n.
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person
dweller, denizen, Indweller, inhabitant, Habitant.
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person
