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Synonyms of highbrow in English:

highbrow


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See Spanish definition of intelectual

adjective

1‘innovatory art had a small, mostly highbrow following’

SYNONYMS
intellectual, scholarly, bookish, cultured, cultivated, academic, educated, studious, serious, donnish, bluestocking, well read, widely read, well informed, sophisticated, erudite, learned
informal brainy, egghead
archaic lettered, clerkly
ANTONYMS

lowbrow, unsophisticated


noun

1‘highbrows who squirm when they hear popular music’

SYNONYMS
intellectual, scholar, academic, bluestocking, bookish person, man of letters, woman of letters, don, thinker, pedant
informal egghead, brain, bookworm
British informal brainbox, boffin
North American informal brainiac, rocket scientist, Brahmin
ANTONYMS

lowbrow, philistine