Meaning of medium-brow | Babel Free

Definitions

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

rare

Examples

“This channel shows mostly medium-brow programmes.”

“Well, if that is medium-brow music, startled minds will no doubt be wondering what is left to be called low-brow.”

“Our correspondents are urged to cultivate a good medium-brow vocabulary, to conform to the taste of a medium-brow editor.”

“Yah. It's the first good medium-brow show they've had, and it's going to be a knockout.”

“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.”

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