ALL meanings of philistine
phil·is·tine
P p - noun philistine uncultured person 1
- adjective philistine uncultured 1
- noun philistine (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values, intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes. 1
- noun philistine (initial capital letter) a native or inhabitant of ancient Philistia. 1
- adjective philistine (sometimes initial capital letter) lacking in or hostile to culture. 1
- adjective philistine smugly commonplace or conventional. 1
- adjective philistine (initial capital letter) of or belonging to the ancient Philistines. 1
- countable noun philistine If you call someone a philistine, you mean that they do not care about or understand good art, music, or literature, and do not think that they are important. 0
- adjective philistine You can use philistine to describe people or organizations who you think do not care about or understand the value of good art, music, or literature. 0
- noun philistine a person who is unreceptive to or hostile towards culture, the arts, etc; a smug boorish person 0
- noun philistine a member of the non-Semitic people who inhabited ancient Philistia 0
- adjective philistine boorishly uncultured 0
- adjective philistine of or relating to the ancient Philistines 0
- noun philistine a member of a non-Semitic people that lived in Philistia and repeatedly warred with the Israelites 0
- noun philistine a person regarded as smugly narrow and conventional in views and tastes, lacking in and indifferent to cultural and aesthetic values 0
- adjective philistine of the ancient Philistines or their culture 0
- adjective philistine smugly conventional and lacking in culture 0