HIGHBROW

Highbrow

Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor.

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highbrow

Noun

  1. A cultured or learned person or thing.

Adjective

  1. Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured.


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