midbrow
midbrow is the alternative form of middlebrow.
Meaning of middlebrow
Adjective
middlebrow (not comparable)
- Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between.
- What does a Princeton graduate whose old dream it was to write for the New Yorker do when that dream comes true, only to discover that his cherished magazine is no longer the middlebrow arbiter of high culture of his imagining, but just another media outlet frantic for its market share of mass...2000 September 21, Hal Foster, “Slumming with Rappers at the Roxy”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 18, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2025
Forms of midbrow
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more midbrow |
| superlative | most midbrow |
| Noun | |
| plural | midbrows |
Origin of midbrow
From mid- + brow.
Questions about midbrow
- What is midbrow the alternative form of?
- Midbrow is the alternative form of middlebrow.
Words near midbrow in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: midbrow (page history and authors); middlebrow (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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