highbrow

[ hahy-brou ]

/ ˈhaɪˌbraʊ /

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noun

a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.

a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob.

the crestfish.

adjective

Also high·browed. of, relating to, or characteristic of a highbrow.

Words nearby highbrow

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Origin of highbrow

First recorded in 1895–1900; high + brow

SYNONYMS FOR highbrow

4 intellectual, scholarly, cultured; bookish, snobbish, pseudointellectual.

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OTHER WORDS FROM highbrow

high·brow·ism, noun

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Plato argued that true learning must be more than what Deresiewicz calls “highbrow entertainment for the moneyed class.”
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For highbrow patrons who are more familiar with Tolstoy than Ivan Drago, head to the Russian Tea Room.
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What makes Ngai's discussion novel is her application of the "cute" to highbrow poetry.
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Armored in highbrow credibility, he lashes out with low blows.
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I could get onto the sedan styles in highbrow talk as long as it was in American.
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The word "highbrow" has been invented exactly to fit the case.
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Sometimes I think Madeline Morton is a highbrow in disguise.
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To be "intellectual" or "artistic" or, in their own word, to be "highbrow," is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
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Alec Connage, another frequent visitor, liked him in a vague way, but was afraid of him as a highbrow.
This Side of Paradise|F. Scott Fitzgerald

British Dictionary definitions for highbrow

highbrow

/ (ˈhaɪˌbraʊ) often derogatory /

noun

a person of scholarly and erudite tastes

adjective Also: highbrowed

appealing to highbrowshighbrow literature

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