medium-brow
medium-brow adjective: of medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.
Adjective
medium-brow
- Of medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.
- This channel shows mostly medium-brow programmes.
- Well, if that is medium-brow music, startled minds will no doubt be wondering what is left to be called low-brow.1928, Wireless World - Volume 22, page 351
- Synonyms:
- middlebrow
Examples of medium-brow in a sentence
- Our correspondents are urged to cultivate a good medium-brow vocabulary, to conform to the taste of a medium-brow editor.1929, The Phi Gamma Delta - Volume 51, Issue 6, page 556:
- It's the first good medium-brow show they've had, and it's going to be a knockout.1952, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Angel cake, page 85:
- The Gazette ceased to appear before the tourney closing date, but the competing entries, of which there were four, appeared in the medium-brow literary journal Society.1972, A. J. Roycroft, The Chess Endgame Study:
Synonyms of medium-brow
Questions about medium-brow
- What does medium-brow mean?
- Medium-brow means of medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.
- How do you use medium-brow in a sentence?
- Our correspondents are urged to cultivate a good medium-brow vocabulary, to conform to the taste of a medium-brow editor.
- What part of speech is medium-brow?
- Medium-brow is an adjective.
Words near medium-brow in the dictionary
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