middlebrow

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A person or thing that is neither a highbrow or lowbrow, but in between
Neither highbrow or lowbrow, but somewhere in between
someone who is neither a highbrow nor a lowbrow
{s} having a moderately intellectual quality; somewhat cultured or refined
If you describe a piece of entertainment such as a book or film as middlebrow, you mean that although it may be interesting and enjoyable, it does not require much thought. such middlebrow fare as Poirot, Sherlock Holmes and Jeeves and Wooster. middlebrow books, television programmes etc are of fairly good quality but are not very difficult to understand highbrow, lowbrow lowbrow
{i} moderately intellectual person; person with conventional taste
mezzobrow
middlebrows
plural of middlebrow
middlebrow

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    mid·dle·brow

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    Etymologie

    () A spin-off from the terms highbrow and lowbrow. The term first appeared in Punch (1925) and later was used by Virginia Wolf (1930's) in an unsent letter to the "New Statesman," published as a chapter in the book "The Death of a Moth and Other Essays" (1942).
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