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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,
Opposite: lowbrow, unsophisticated,

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,
Opposite: lowbrow, philistine,


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