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philistine

/ˈfɪlɪstʌɪn/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈfɪlɪstʌɪn/
philistine
Syllables
3 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

phi - lis - tine -> philistine

Myanmar meaning

(n) အနုပညာကိုမလေ့လာဘဲ၊နားမလည်ဘဲမလိုမုန်းထားသူ။ အနုပညာနှင့်ဒုံးဝေးသူ။ အနုပညာနားမလည်သော။

Full entry

philistine /'fÇlÇstaÇn; US -sti:n/ n

(derog ) အနုပညာကို မလေ့လာဘဲ၊ နားမလည်ဘဲ မလိုမုန်းထားသူ။ အနုပညာနှင့် ဒုံးဝေးသူ။ He dismissed critics of his work as philistines.
adj (derog ) အနုပညာနားမလည်သော။ a philistine attitude.
❏ philistinism /-tÇnÇzǝm/ n [U] (derog ) အနုပညာကင်းမဲ့မှူ။ the philistinism of the popular press.

Synonyms
barbarian, barbarous, bear, boob, boor, boorish, brute, buffoon, cad, chuff, churl, dork, goon, lout, oaf, peasant, rube, uncultured, uninformed, unsophisticated, untutored, vulgarian, yahoo
Antonyms
aesthete, cultured, gentleman
Cross references
barbarianbarbarousbearboobboorboorishbrutebuffooncadchuffchurldorkgoonloutoafpeasantrubeuncultureduninformedunsophisticateduntutoredvulgarianyahooaestheteculturedgentlemanattitudehis
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