Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or being highly cultured or intellectual: They only attend highbrow events such as the ballet or the opera.
- n. One who possesses or affects a high degree of culture or learning.
Wiktionary
- adj. Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured.
- n. A cultured or learned person or thing.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a person of intellectual or erudite tastes; an intellectual.
- adj. highly cultured or educated; pertaining to highly educated people.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. highly cultured or educated
- n. a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
Examples
“But you know the highbrow is a fanatic, just as the lowbrow.”
“This “Opinion piece” was nothing more than an exercise in highbrow name calling.”
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“But this same small locale is also deeply interesting in highbrow ways.”
“I'll confess that I was a bit annoyed when the film I had decided was the closest thing to perfect I saw all year suddenly became the critics 'darling in highbrow end-of-the-year polls," grumbles Bryant Frazer.”
“I'm having difficulty understanding your need to predict how certain highbrow critics will respond to the film.”
“I wrote a piece for Esquireit won't see print for a couple of months, unfortunately, since the film's true release isn't until Februarypredicting that certain highbrow critics would respond to this film with the same shallow outrage that e.g. Hoberman felt toward Schindler's List: How dare you make a movie about a few thousand people who lived when six million died?”
“Mr. Kahane is known as a highbrow polymath: an accomplished new-music composer who also plays an array of instruments and writes pop songs of theatrical effect.”
“He was a sophisticated, well-schooled musician and loved the idea of highbrow arrangements over simple three-chord rock and roll.”
“Editor's note: Often, many of the more sophisticated and literary blogs, often referred to as highbrow blogs post beautiful poetry, and I want to try and emulate their good taste with my new series, Thursday Poetry Corner - I hope you enjoy.”
“It was felt to be off-limits, and now, everyone is piling into this story, even the so-called highbrow papers like "The Guardian" which, again, a few years ago, wouldn't have devoted nearly so much space to it.”
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