/hajˈbɹawˌz/ - [haybrawz] -
We found 3 definitions of highbrows from 2 different sources.
NounPlural: highbrows |
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highbrow - a person of intellectual or erudite tastes | ||
intellectual, intellect a person who uses the mind creatively | ||
Adjectivehighbrow, highbrower, highbrowest |
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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 |