A compound of the wordshigh +brow, first recorded usage in 1875. Referring to the (by that time discredited) science ofphrenology, which suggested that a person of intelligence and sophistication would possess a higher brow-line than someone of lesser intelligence and sophistication.
highbrow
- (sometimes derogatory)Intellectuallystimulating, highly cultured,sophisticated.
- Antonym:lowbrow
- Coordinate terms:middlebrow,no-brow
- highbrow entertainment
highly cultured
- Bulgarian:интелектуален(intelektualen)
- Catalan:intel·lectual (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:陽春白雪 /阳春白雪 (zh)(yángchūnbáixuě)
- French:intello (fr)
- German:(of a person or thing; positive)intellektuell (de);(of a person or thing; more negative)hochintellektuell,vergeistigt (de);(of a thing also; positive)anspruchsvoll (de),geistreich (de),geistvoll (de);(of a thing also; more negative)hochgeistig,hochgestochen,hochtrabend (de);(negative of a person, in particular German context)bildungsbürgerlich
- Irish:ardnósach
- Italian:intellettuale (it),(pejorative)intellettualoide
- Manx:ard-inçhynagh
- Polish:przeintelektualizowany,elitarny (pl)
- Spanish:intelectual (es),cultivado (es),élite (es),culturoso (es),cultureta (es)
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highbrow (pluralhighbrows)
- (sometimes derogatory) Acultured orlearned person or thing.
- Synonyms:intellectual,scholar
- Antonym:lowbrow
- Coordinate term:middlebrow
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