Philistine synonyms

fĭl'ĭ-stēn', fĭ-lĭs'tĭn, -tēn'

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conformist
Someone who tries to conform to the mainstream
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conventionalist
(French, history) A member or supporter of the National Convention.
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churl
A farm laborer; peasant
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sycophant (related)
One who uses obsequious compliments to gain self-serving favor or advantage from another; a servile flatterer.
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chuff
A rude, insensitive person; a boor.
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vulgarian
A person who makes an ostentatious display of wealth and is often poorly educated or lacking in refinement.
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yahoo!
Yahoo! is a website that offers a search engine and other features, or a yahoo is a person who is coarse or unrefined in style.
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good (related)
(Slang) Incriminating information or evidence:
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anti-intellectual
Alternative spelling of anti-intellectual.
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lowbrow
One having uncultivated tastes.
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israelite (related)
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canaanites (related)
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midianites (related)
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ammonites (related)
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assyrians (related)
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amalekites (related)
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edomites (related)
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moabites (related)
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edom (related)
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judah (related)
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assyria (related)
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amalek (related)
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Chalde'ans (related)
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chaldeans (related)
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babylonians (related)
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midian (related)
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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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follower (related)
One who accepts the guidance, command, or leadership of another:
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barbarian
A member of one of the non-Greek peoples in the ancient world, regarded by the ancient Greeks as culturally inferior.
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boor
A rude, awkward, or ill-mannered person
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Find another word for philistine. In this page you can discover 30 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for philistine, like: conformist, conventionalist, churl, sycophant, chuff, vulgarian, yahoo!, good, anti-intellectual, lowbrow and israelite.
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Philistine Sentence Examples

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

  • Idumaean or Philistine of Ascalon, Antipater had displayed the capacity of his adoptive or adopted nation for his own profit and theirs.

  • The principal Philistine tribe is indeed known in the biblical records as the Cherethims or Cretans, and the Minoan name and the cult of the Cretan Zeus were preserved at Gaza to the latest classical days.

  • 4 The passage anticipates chap. xxvii., and it is hardly probable that the slayer of Goliath or of any other Philistine giant fled to the Philistines with their dead hero's sword.

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