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medium-brow en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (rare) Of medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • Yah. 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:
    • This channel shows mostly medium-brow programmes.

Synonyms

middlebrow