HIGHBROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does highbrow mean? 

• HIGHBROW (noun)
  The noun HIGHBROW has 1 sense:

1. a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

  Familiarity information: HIGHBROW used as a noun is very rare.

• HIGHBROW (adjective)
  The adjective HIGHBROW has 1 sense:

1. highly cultured or educated

  Familiarity information: HIGHBROW used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHBROW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person of intellectual or erudite tastes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("highbrow" is a kind of...):

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Derivation:

highbrow (highly cultured or educated)

• HIGHBROW (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Highly cultured or educated

Synonyms:

highbrow; highbrowed

Context example:

a highbrowed literary critic

Similar:

intellectual (appealing to or using the intellect)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Derivation:

highbrow (a person of intellectual or erudite tastes)