Definition of "lowest common denominator" []

• See least common denominator. (noun)
• The most basic, least sophisticated level of taste, sensibility, or opinion among a group of people. (noun)
• The group having such taste, sensibility, or opinion: "The press can resist the standard of the lowest common denominator, the rationalization that all news is fit to print that has appeared anywhere else” ( Edward M. Kennedy). (noun)

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