highbrow
adjEtymology
A compound of the words high + brow, first recorded usage in 1875. Referring to the (by that time discredited) science of phrenology, which suggested that a person of intelligence and sophistication would possess a higher brow-line than someone of lesser intelligence and sophistication.
Definitions
Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated.
- highbrow entertainment
- They tend to regard the socialist intellectuals as nothing more than a pernicious bunch of highbrow radicals without appreciating their influence […]
A cultured or learned person or thing.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for highbrow. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA