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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic" [syn: highbrow, highbrowed] n
1: a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1903 a person who possesses or has pretensions to superior learning or culture • highbrow adjective • highbrowed adjective • highbrowism noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. colloq. --adj. intellectual; cultural. --n. an intellectual or cultured person.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(highbrows) 1. If you say that a book or discussion is highbrow, you mean that it is intellectual, academic, and is often difficult to understand. He presents his own highbrow literary programme. ? lowbrow ADJ 2. If you describe someone as highbrow, you mean that they are interested in serious subjects of a very intellectual nature, especially when these are difficult to understand. Highbrow critics sniff that the programme was 'too sophisticated' to appeal to most viewers. ? lowbrow ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

Brahmin, aesthete, aesthetic, bookish, brain, brainworker, brainy, cerebral, connoisseur, cultivated, cultured, deep, doubles, egghead, elitist, erudite, genius, highbrowed, intellect, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic, learned, literate, mandarin, mastermind, name-dropper, prig, sage, savant, scholar, scholarly, snob, sophisticated, thinker, tufthunter, white-collar intellectual, wise man