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highbrow
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun highbrow has 1 sense
- highbrow(n = noun.person) Array - a person of intellectual or erudite tastes; Array is a kind of intellect, intellectual
Derived form adjective highbrow1
Adjective highbrow has 1 sense
- highbrow(s = adj.all) highbrowed - highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic" Derived form noun highbrow1
CIDE DICTIONARY
highbrow, n.
a person of intellectual or erudite tastes; an intellectual. [WordNet 1.5]
highbrow, adj.
highly cultured or educated; pertaining to highly educated people; as, highbrow events such as the ballet or opera. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
highbrow, adj. & n. colloq.
--adj. intellectual; cultural.
--n. an intellectual or cultured person.
--adj. intellectual; cultural.
--n. an intellectual or cultured person.
THESAURUS
highbrow
Brahmin, aesthete, aesthetic, bookish, 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
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