Highbrow

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  highbrow \high"brow`\ n.
     a person of intellectual or erudite tastes; an intellectual.
     [WordNet 1.5] highbrow

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  highbrow
       adj : highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the
             ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic" [syn:
             {highbrowed}]
       n : a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "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