'highbrow' definitions:
Definition of 'highbrow'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic" [syn: highbrow, highbrowed]
noun
A person of intellectual or erudite tastes
Definition of 'highbrow'
From: GCIDE
- highbrow \high"brow`\ n. a person of intellectual or erudite tastes; an intellectual. [WordNet 1.5] highbrow
Definition of 'highbrow'
From: GCIDE
- highbrow \highbrow\ highbrowed \highbrowed\adj. highly cultured or educated; pertaining to highly educated people; as, highbrow events such as the ballet or opera. [informal] [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'highbrow'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aesthete,
- aesthetic,
- bookish,
- Brahmin,
- brain,
- brainworker,
- brainy,
- cerebral,
- connoisseur,
- cultivated,
- cultured,
- deep,
- doubles,
- egghead,
- elitist,
- erudite,
- genius,
- highbrowed,
- intellect,
- intellectual,
- intellectualist,
- intellectualistic,
- learned,
- literate,
- mandarin,
- mastermind,
- name-dropper,
- prig,
- sage,
- savant,
- scholar,
- scholarly,
- snob,
- sophisticated,
- thinker,
- tufthunter,
- white-collar intellectual,
- wise man