medium-brow
adj1
Rare Of medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.
- 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.1928, Wireless World - Volume 22, page 351:
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- 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