highbrow
adjective
[ ˈhʌɪbraʊ ]
• intellectual or rarefied in taste.
• "innovatory art had a small, mostly highbrow following"
Similar:
intellectual,
scholarly,
bookish,
cultured,
cultivated,
academic,
educated,
studious,
serious,
donnish,
bluestocking,
well read,
widely read,
well informed,
sophisticated,
erudite,
learned,
brainy,
egghead,
lettered,
clerkly,
highbrow
noun
• a highbrow person.
• "she considered all those without television as highbrows, intellectual snobs, or paupers"
Similar:
intellectual,
scholar,
academic,
bluestocking,
bookish person,
man/woman of letters,
don,
thinker,
pedant,
egghead,
brain,
bookworm,
brainbox,
boffin,
brainiac,
rocket scientist,
Brahmin,