highbrow
A cultured or learned person or thingA cultured or learned person or thing.
» That's a bit too highbrow for my taste.
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1 senses(derogatory, sometimes)A cultured or learned person or thing.
Intellektueller, Intellektuelle
- a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
Examples
3 sentencesThat's a bit too highbrow for my taste.
Phil would never take part in an activity as highbrow as going to the opera.
Sills' stardom stretched from the highbrow world of the Metropolitan Opera to the playful world of the Muppets on television.
Translations
4 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
A compound of the words high + brow, first recorded usage in 1875. Referring to the (by thA compound of the words high + brow, first recorded usage in 1875. Referring to the (by that time discredited) science of phrenology, which suggested that a person of intelligence and sophistication would possess a higher brow-line than someone of lesser intelligence and sophistication.
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