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person of intellectual tastes, pretentious person; pretentious
Used 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" can be applied to music, implying most of the classical music tradition and much of post-bebop jazz; to literature, i.e. literary fiction; to films in the arthouse line; and to comedy that requires significant understanding of analogies or references to appreciate
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Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured
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A cultured or learned person or thing
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a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
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highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"
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{i} intellectual, cultured person, refined person; pseudointellectual, snob
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{s} having a highly intellectual quality; highly cultured or refined; snobbish, haughty
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a person of intellectual or erudite tastes highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic
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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
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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
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