highbrow

Speech parts

1. highbrow - Noun

2. highbrow - Adjective

3. highbrow - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

highly cultured or educated

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

brahmin ninja brainiac sage savant brain learned literary academic intellectual sophisticated scholar philosopher cultivated cerebral
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Antonyms

poon sap prat turkey bayard mongoloid
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Hypernyms

intellectual intellect

Phrases with the word

highbrow culture

Examples

An honest, bold, loyal, and within its limits extremely highbrow attempt to produce through common ownership a society of the Free and Equal, produced a tyrant and a totalitarian state;... Max Eastman

In other words, the fact that the criterion we happen to use has a fine ancestry of highbrow statistical theorems does not justify its use. Such justification must come from empirical evidence that it works. Walter A. Shewhart

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. Virginia Woolf

I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident. Gordon Getty

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society. Irvine Welsh

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow. Dick Cavett

Close letter words and terms

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