0 (of entertainment) not complicated or demanding much intelligence to be understood:
1 (of literature, art, music, movies, or plays) not serious and intended for people who do not know much about these forms of art, or (of people) not intelligent and not knowing a lot about such things:
At this point, all too obviously, sentimentalism moved from high- to middlebrow, and from there to lowbrow in the twentieth century.
On the one hand, for "highbrow" research or methods to succeed, to have a utility value, these techniques have to find implementation in "lowbrow" commercial software in use in practice.
Warren's stylistic choices compounded his offence by looking to a sentimental, lowbrow literature and gesturing toward the necessarily subjective stance of even the physician.
Compare, for example, "sophisticated," which would have adequately poked fun at such lowbrow taste by playing on the common equation of sophistication with something positive to which most would aspire.
They would like all the arts to resemble rock music, relentlessly lowbrow, vastly profitable and nakedly populist.
This is not an issue of highbrow against lowbrow.
I was doing my ironing the other day and was listening to a lowbrow programme on the wireless.
I do not agree with the suggestion that the exhibitions, or the stage plays, may be highbrow, lowbrow, middlebrow, or any other brow.