highbrowed

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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Adj.

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highbrowed - highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic" highbrow 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"