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conformist
A person who tends to conform
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  1. A person who tends to conform
  2. A person who uncritically or habitually conforms to the customs, rules, or styles of a group.
conventionalist
(French, history) A member or supporter of the National Convention.
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  1. (French, history) A member or supporter of the National Convention.
  2. (Philosophy) A supporter or adherent of conventionalism
pedant
A person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of proportion
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  1. A person who puts unnecessary stress on minor or trivial points of learning, displaying a scholarship lacking in judgment or sense of proportion
  2. A teacher characterized by insistence on exact adherence to a set of arbitrary rules
  3. (Obsolete) A schoolmaster.
barbarian
A member of a people considered uncivilized or culturally inferior by members of another people.
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  1. A member of a people considered uncivilized or culturally inferior by members of another people.
  2. (Obs.) An alien or foreigner
  3. A member of one of the non-Greek peoples in the ancient world, regarded by the ancient Greeks as culturally inferior.
boor
(Archaic) A peasant or farm worker
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  1. (Archaic) A peasant or farm worker
  2. A rude, awkward, or ill-mannered person
  3. A person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement.
chuff
(Brit., Dial.) A boor; churl
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  1. (Brit., Dial.) A boor; churl
  2. A rude, insensitive person; a boor.
  3. A noisy puffing or explosive sound, such as one made by a locomotive.
churl
A medieval English peasant.
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  1. A medieval English peasant.
  2. A selfish or mean person
  3. A rude, boorish person.
vulgarian
A vulgar person; esp., a rich person with coarse, ostentatious manners or tastes
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  1. A vulgar person; esp., a rich person with coarse, ostentatious manners or tastes
  2. A person who makes an ostentatious display of wealth and is often poorly educated or lacking in refinement.
yahoo!
An unrefined and often loud or disruptive person.
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  1. An unrefined and often loud or disruptive person.
  2. (Literature) One of a race of brutes, who look and act similar to men, that inhabit the same land as the civilized Houyhnhnms.
  3. (Informal) An employee of the Internet company Yahoo!.
Find another word for philistine. In this page you can discover 12 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for philistine, like: conformist, conventionalist, pedant, follower, sycophant, barbarian, boor, chuff, churl, vulgarian and yahoo!.

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  • The scanty details of these important events must naturally be contrasted with the comparatively full accounts of earlier Philistine wars and internal conflicts in narratives which date from this or even a later age.

  • Again (b) the primitive stories of conflicts with " Philistine " giants between Hebron and Jerusalem (2 Sam.

  • She was a Philistine of Sorek (mod.

  • Baal Zebub of the Philistine Ekron became the Beelzebub who was equivalent to Satan.

  • The Philistines naturally had a prominent place in popular tradition, and the story of Isaac and the Philistine Abimelech (Gen.

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