highbrow
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- n a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
- s highly cultured or educated
highbrow events such as the ballet or opera
a highbrowed literary critic
- Highbrow Station For more than a year tiny, 550-watt Station KPFA had been fighting a losing game.
- Any highbrow knows that TV, a sinister substitute for books, is no more likely to encourage worthwhile reading than corn pone is to whet a taste for caviar.
- If a Hollywood producer can be considered highbrow, suave, grey-eyed Walter Wanger is it.