Definition of highbrows Highbrows

/hajˈbɹawˌz/ - [haybrawz] -

We found 3 definitions of highbrows from 2 different sources.

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What does highbrows mean?

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  • highbrows (Noun)
    Plural of highbrow.

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WordNet

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Noun

Plural: highbrows

highbrow - a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
  intellectual, intellect a person who uses the mind creatively

Adjective

highbrow, highbrower, highbrowest

highbrow - highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"
  highbrowed
  intellectual appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
  colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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  • highbrow, noun, singular of highbrows.
  • highbrow, adjective.

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