upper-middlebrown.adj.

Etymology: upper adj. 8b.

One whose cultural interests lie between those of the middlebrow and those of the highbrow. Also attributive or as adj.

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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [adjective] > lowbrow or middlebrow

lowbrow1907

mezzo-brow1925

middlebrow1928

upper-middlebrow1956

1956 R. Conquest New Lines p. xiv A sort of upper~middle-brow equivalent of the horror-comic.

1959 Economist 28 Feb. 787/1 Magazines for upper middle~brows.

1974 Country Life 14 Mar. 588/2 The middle to~upper-middle brow range that Chichester programmes now generally encompass.

1977 Listener 11 Aug. 170/1 In Life magazine, nearly 30 years ago, an American critic said: What culture and civilized living we have today is provided by the interaction of..the aesthetic radical highbrow and the somewhat more conservative upper~middlebrows.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	upper-middlebrow
释义	upper-middlebrown.adj. Etymology: upper adj. 8b. One whose cultural interests lie between those of the middlebrow and those of the highbrow. Also attributive or as adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [adjective] > lowbrow or middlebrow lowbrow1907 mezzo-brow1925 middlebrow1928 upper-middlebrow1956 1956 R. Conquest New Lines p. xiv A sort of upper~middle-brow equivalent of the horror-comic. 1959 Economist 28 Feb. 787/1 Magazines for upper middle~brows. 1974 Country Life 14 Mar. 588/2 The middle to~upper-middle brow range that Chichester programmes now generally encompass. 1977 Listener 11 Aug. 170/1 In Life magazine, nearly 30 years ago, an American critic said: What culture and civilized living we have today is provided by the interaction of..the aesthetic radical highbrow and the somewhat more conservative upper~middlebrows. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.adj.1956
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