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highbrow

[ hahy-brou ]

noun

  1. a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
  2. a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob.
  3. the crestfish.


adjective

  1. Also highbrowed. of, relating to, or characteristic of a highbrow.

    Synonyms: , , , , ,

highbrow

/ 藞丑补瑟藢产谤补蕣 /

noun

  1. a person of scholarly and erudite tastes
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. appealing to highbrows

    highbrow literature

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 丑颈驳丑路产谤辞飞路颈蝉尘 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of highbrow1

First recorded in 1895鈥1900; high + brow
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Still, his research revealed a fascinating throughline: the line between highbrow and lowbrow cuisine has always been blurry, and gelatin salads are a perfect case study.

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Some literary types worried that TV and books were somehow at odds, that her tastes weren鈥檛 highbrow enough.

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The notice came from a Seattle venue best known for being the home of our local ballet and opera companies, a place that generally programs highbrow acts.

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It would be an irony worthy of Sondheim if, after a lifetime of being dismissed as too highbrow, his posthumous career suffered from commercial overexposure.

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I never said my taste was all highbrow.

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