English to Portuguese Meaning of philistine - filisteu

Philistine :

noun

Philistine :: filisteuPhilistines :: philistines

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Definitions of philistine in English

Noun(1) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits(2) a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
Adjective(1) of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people(2) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values

Examples of philistine in English

(1) the lecture was a tremendous philippic against our culture(2) The smallest concession to a different view must now be scotched by this master of the pulpit philippic and the courtroom defence.(3) The other part of her book which has impressed me is her philippic on Europe and her call for Britain to begin the process of withdrawal from the European Union.(4) My Dad wanted me to read The Divine Comedy but my Mom gave him a philippic for even suggesting it.(5) They have also launched countless philippics against Labour's love of the target and the quota, and all manner of diktat from Whitehall.(6) I wonder if the new editor of the Daily Telegraph has any Irish blood and will tone down the paper's anti-euro, anti-EU philippics .

Related Phrases of philistine

(1) Philistine ::

filisteu

Related Phrases of philistine

(1) Philistine ::

filisteu

Synonyms

Noun

1. lowbrow ::

lowbrow

2. anti-intellectual ::

antiintelectual

Adjective

3. uncultured ::

inculto

4. lowbrow ::

lowbrow

5. anti-intellectual ::

antiintelectual

6. uncultivated ::

inculto

7. uncivilized ::

não civilizado

8. uneducated ::

ignorante

9. unenlightened ::

ignorante

10. commercial ::

comercial

12. bourgeois ::

burguês

13. ignorant ::

ignorante

14. crass ::

grosseiro

15. boorish ::

grosseiro

16. barbarian ::

bárbaro

Different Forms

philistine, philistines

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