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highbrow::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | highbrowed |
highbrow events such as the ballet or opera.
a highbrowed literary critic.
highbrow::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | intellect, intellectual |
Examples of highbrow
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Some, such as the collaboration with staid English brand Barbour, trend highbrow.
From the businessweek.com
Le Monde is a highbrow centre-left paper before which mere politicians tremble.
From the economist.com
At worst, it's a disappointingly crass display of some otherwise highbrow actors.
From the ocregister.com
The cast of this cutthroat cuss-down is like a who's who of highbrow hooligans.
From the stltoday.com
Bars and highbrow restaurants have touted dandified and old-standard versions.
From the omaha.com
The kitchen serves highbrow treats like filet mignon and Cornish hen, he said.
From the cnn.com
To be sure, there's always been a fine line between the high end and the highbrow.
From the newsweek.com
This time, he wanted to play the uncompromising, highbrow playwright Elomire.
From the sfgate.com
Instead, it felt like repeated swings and misses at highbrow, art-rock epics.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"
- A person of intellectual or erudite tastes
- Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, highbrow is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor. ...
- Highbrow is the name of several fictional characters in the Transformers universes.
- A cultured or learned person or thing; Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured
- (1) a man who has found something more interesting than a woman. (2) a person educated beyond his intelligence. History: the record of the follies of the majority.
- Headmaster, not sure who his 'partner' is, though.
- With superior tastes
- Gort (helicopter/robot)
