English to Filipino Meaning of philistine - pilistino


Philistine :

pilistinoFilisteo
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Definitions of philistine in English
Noun(1) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits(2) a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
Adjective(1) of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people(2) smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values
Examples of philistine in English
(1) the lecture was a tremendous philippic against our culture(2) The smallest concession to a different view must now be scotched by this master of the pulpit philippic and the courtroom defence.(3) The other part of her book which has impressed me is her philippic on Europe and her call for Britain to begin the process of withdrawal from the European Union.(4) My Dad wanted me to read The Divine Comedy but my Mom gave him a philippic for even suggesting it.(5) They have also launched countless philippics against Labour's love of the target and the quota, and all manner of diktat from Whitehall.(6) I wonder if the new editor of the Daily Telegraph has any Irish blood and will tone down the paper's anti-euro, anti-EU philippics .
Related Phrases of philistine
(1) Philistine ::
pilistino
Synonyms
Noun
1. lowbrow ::
lowbrow
2. anti-intellectual ::
anti-intelektuwal
Adjective
3. uncultured ::
uncultured
4. lowbrow ::
lowbrow
5. anti-intellectual ::
anti-intelektuwal
6. uncultivated ::
hindi nabubungkal
7. uncivilized ::
hindi sibilisado
8. uneducated ::
walang pinag-aralan
9. unenlightened ::
kulang sa balita
10. commercial ::
komersyal
12. bourgeois ::
burges
13. ignorant ::
ignorante
14. crass ::
puno
15. boorish ::
bastos
16. barbarian ::
napakawalang hiya
Different Forms
philistine, philistines
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