highbrowed s highly cultured or educated a highbrowed literary critic Usage(s) At three o'clock, as twilight set tled over quiet Brussels, his hollow-cheeked, highbrowed, thin-haired head fell forward on his chest. To judge by their figurines, they bound their babies' heads to make them abnormally highbrowed. But even as the House brandished the ax, a highbrowed, heavy-jowled Congressman from South Dakota was rushing to avert it. Synonym(s) highbrow