Meaning Of The Word Highbrow

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highbrow
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.
adjective: If you say that a book or discussion is highbrow, you mean that it is intellectual, academic, and is often difficult to understand.

highbrow in American English
a person having or affecting highly cultivated, intellectual tastes; intellectual
of or for a highbrow
adjective: of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a highbrow
noun: a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes

highbrow in British English
adjective: appealing to highbrows
noun: a person of scholarly and erudite tastes

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