high-brow in English

adjective

1

scholarly or rarefied in taste.

innovatory art had a small, mostly highbrow following

synonyms: intellectual, scholarly, bookish, well-read, literary, cultured, academic, educated, lettered, sophisticated, erudite, learned, cerebral, brainy, egghead, inkhorn

noun

1

a highbrow person.

In the 1999 series ‘Resolutions,’ Chicago continues to address the audience she has created of mainly middle- and working-class women, an audience easily dismissed by both highbrows and lowbrows.

synonyms: intellectual, scholar, academic, bluestocking, bookish person, thinker, egghead, brain, bookworm, brainiac

adjective

intellectual, scholarly, bookish, well-read, literary, cultured, academic, educated, lettered, sophisticated, erudite, learned, cerebral, brainy, egghead, inkhorn

noun

intellectual, scholar, academic, bluestocking, bookish person, thinker, egghead, brain, bookworm, brainiac

Use "high-brow" in a sentence

1. The title of "Aute Cuture" is a tongue-in-cheek take on "hAute couture," implying a mocking tone to hipster and high-brow fashion as she sings, "Hands in the air if …