medium-brow

adjective

Of medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.

“This channel shows mostly medium-brow programmes.”

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Meanings

adjective
  1. rareOf medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.

    This channel shows mostly medium-brow programmes.

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    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

    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: middlebrow

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveOf medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.

Similar
middlebrow
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APA

medium-brow. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/medium-brow

MLA

“medium-brow.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/medium-brow. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “medium-brow,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/medium-brow.

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