highbrow

high·brow  (hbrou)

adj. also high·browed (-broud)

Of, relating to, or being highly cultured or intellectual: They only attend highbrow events such as the ballet or the opera.

n.

One who possesses or affects a high degree of culture or learning.

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highbrowism n.

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highbrow Often disparaging

Adjective

concerned with serious, intellectual subjects

Noun

a person with such tastes

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	highbrow - a person of intellectual or erudite tastes intellectual, intellect - a person who uses the mind creatively
Adj.	1.	highbrow - highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic" highbrowed colloquialism - a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech intellectual - appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"

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highbrow (Often disparaging)

adjective 1. intellectual, cultured, sophisticated, deep, cultivated, brainy (informal) highbrowed, bookish << OPPOSITE unintellectual

noun 2. intellectual, scholar, egghead (informal) brain (informal) mastermind, Brahmin U.S. aesthete, savant, brainbox (slang) << OPPOSITE philistine

Translations

highbrow [ˈhaɪbrau] adj → culto

highbrow [ˈhaɪbrau] adj, n → intellectuel(le)

highbrow [ˈhaɪbrau] high adj → intellektuell;

(book, discussion etc) → anspruchsvoll

highbrow [ˈhaɪbrau] adj, n → intellettuale (m/f)