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highbrow

highbrow

English

Adjective

highbrow ‎(not comparable)

(US, colloquial) Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated.

Antonyms

lowbrow

Translations

highly cultured

Catalan: intel·lectual
German: inspiriert (de), anspruchsvoll (de), geistvoll, geistreich (de), hochgeistig, intellektuell (de)
Irish: ardnósach
Italian: intellettuale (it), (pejorative) intellettualoide

Manx: ard-inçhynagh
Spanish: intelectual (es), culturado (es), élite

Noun

highbrow ‎(plural highbrows)

A cultured or learned person or thing. Intellectual, scholar.

Translations

Intellectual

German: Intellektueller (de) m, Intellektuelle (de) f

Related terms

References

ESC, 2003. Re:highbrow, middlebrow, lowbrow, The Phrase finder.
Robert Hendrickson, 1997. Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins (New York: Facts on File)