medium-brow

English

Adjective

medium-brow

1. (rare) Of medium sophistication or intellectual level; lying between highbrow and lowbrow; middlebrow.

   This channel shows mostly medium-brow programmes.

   • 1928, Wireless World - Volume 22, page 351:

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

   • 1929, The Phi Gamma Delta - Volume 51, Issue 6, page 556:

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

   • 1952, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, Angel cake, page 85:

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

   • 1972, A. J. Roycroft, The Chess Endgame Study:

     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.

Synonyms

• middlebrow