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[ hahy -brou ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈhaɪˌbraʊ / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob.
the crestfish.
adjective Also highbrowed . of, relating to, or characteristic of a highbrow.
Origin of highbrow First recorded in 1895–1900; high + brow
SYNONYMS FOR highbrow 4 intellectual, scholarly, cultured; bookish, snobbish, pseudointellectual.
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OTHER WORDS FROM highbrow highbrowism, noun Words nearby highbrow high board, highborn, highboy, high brass, highbred, highbrow , highbush blueberry, highbush cranberry, highbush huckleberry, high calorie diet, high camp
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Example sentences from the Web for highbrow Plato argued that true learning must be more than what Deresiewicz calls “highbrow entertainment for the moneyed class.”
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For highbrow patrons who are more familiar with Tolstoy than Ivan Drago, head to the Russian Tea Room.
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What makes Ngai's discussion novel is her application of the "cute" to highbrow poetry.
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Armored in highbrow credibility, he lashes out with low blows.
David Mamet's Right Turn | Ben Crair| May 28, 2011| DAILY BEAST
I could get onto the sedan styles in highbrow talk as long as it was in American.
The word "highbrow " has been invented exactly to fit the case.
My Discovery of England | Stephen Leacock
Sometimes I think Madeline Morton is a highbrow in disguise.
To be "intellectual" or "artistic" or, in their own word, to be "highbrow ," is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.
Main Street | Sinclair Lewis
Alec Connage, another frequent visitor, liked him in a vague way, but was afraid of him as a highbrow .
This Side of Paradise | F. Scott Fitzgerald
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British Dictionary definitions for highbrow / (ˈhaɪˌbraʊ ) often derogatory /
noun a person of scholarly and erudite tastes
adjective Also: highbrowed appealing to highbrows highbrow literature
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Words related to highbrow cerebral, scholarly, wise, scholar, brain, sage, egghead, savant, genius, academic, whiz, philosopher, bluestocking, intelligentsia, academician, thinker, bookish, brainy, cultured, erudite