1. Philistine -- (of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people)
2. anti-intellectual, philistine -- (smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values)
philistine can be used as a noun
1. philistine, anti-intellectual, lowbrow -- (a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits)
2. Philistine -- (a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC)
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It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. - from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels