Highbrow

Word HIGHBROW
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Hyphenation high brow highbrow
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Definitions and meanings of "Highbrow"

What do we mean by highbrow?

Of, relating to, or being highly cultured or intellectual. adjective

One who possesses or affects a high degree of culture or learning. noun

A person of intellectual or erudite tastes; an intellectual. noun

Highly cultured or educated; pertaining to highly educated people. adjective

Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured. adjective

A cultured or learned person or thing. noun

Highly cultured or educated adjective

A person of intellectual or erudite tastes noun

(sometimes derogatory) A cultured or learned person or thing.

Pretentious, snobbish, intellectual or pseudo-int. See lowbrow. Urban Dictionary

Abnormally high eyebrows. Urban Dictionary

While having sex via a "standing wheelbarrow" you wear a monocle and top hat and insert both of your raised pinkies into her anal cavity. Urban Dictionary

1: Something people with higher than a 118 IQ find humorous but not overwhelmingly funny. 2: A joke or comedic event that people whom watch rick and morty wouldn't get but may in many cases might nod along like they understand the joke. 3: Rick and Morty tries very hard to be unironically "highbrow" but ends up just being as comical as the Simpsons season 24. 4: Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured. Urban Dictionary

1. Not fucking funny. 2. Something hipsters pretend to be funny. Urban Dictionary

Shagging in the smoking of the nightclub Vinyl Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Highbrow

The word "highbrow" in example sentences

But you know the highbrow is a fanatic, just as the lowbrow. ❋ Unknown (1928)

This “Opinion piece” was nothing more than an exercise in highbrow name calling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But this same small locale is also deeply interesting in highbrow ways. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"I'll confess that I was a bit annoyed when the film I had decided was the closest thing to perfect I saw all year suddenly became the critics 'darling in highbrow end-of-the-year polls," grumbles Bryant Frazer. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'm having difficulty understanding your need to predict how certain highbrow critics will respond to the film. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I wrote a piece for Esquireit won't see print for a couple of months, unfortunately, since the film's true release isn't until Februarypredicting that certain highbrow critics would respond to this film with the same shallow outrage that e.g. Hoberman felt toward Schindler's List: How dare you make a movie about a few thousand people who lived when six million died? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Mr. Kahane is known as a highbrow polymath: an accomplished new-music composer who also plays an array of instruments and writes pop songs of theatrical effect. ❋ By BEN RATLIFF (2011)

He was a sophisticated, well-schooled musician and loved the idea of highbrow arrangements over simple three-chord rock and roll. ❋ Tommy James (2010)

Editor's note: Often, many of the more sophisticated and literary blogs, often referred to as highbrow blogs post beautiful poetry, and I want to try and emulate their good taste with my new series, Thursday Poetry Corner - I hope you enjoy. ❋ Terry Nelson (2007)

It was felt to be off-limits, and now, everyone is piling into this story, even the so-called highbrow papers like "The Guardian" which, again, a few years ago, wouldn't have devoted nearly so much space to it. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Krallice gets the hipster tag sometimes, but Diotima is not so-called highbrow black metal. ❋ Unknown (2011)

If Benicio del Toro can navigate his own return to acting in ensemble pics or even so-called highbrow films, there will be a renaissance of magnetic mumbling in a muliplex near you. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Your best [girl friend] She might be a highbrow, Changing clothes three times a day . . ." -- [Sippie] [Wallace] ❋ Octopod (2003)

Did you check out that [chola] with the [highbrows]? She totally [drew] those in. ❋ Scrotum Mcballnuts (2010)

Any [season] is the right time for a [divine] [highbrow harvester]. ❋ Frazilliance Squared (2014)

A inspector visits a sanatoriun to check its conditions. During the tour the director takes him to one of their newly designed test rooms, claiming its foolproof. "We fill up this bathtub to the brim see? Then we hand to the inmate a spoon and a cup and ask him to empty the tub" Says the director The inspector nods and replies with a smile "Ah, i see. And the inmate, if sane will choose the cup because it's the biggest." The director then looks at the inspector and raises a brow "No, the sane one will just open the drain" Most people without thinking would just pass this [joke off] as "dumb" however, a classically intelligent mind would see [some slight] comedy in the twist, albeit an easy one. Classic example of "[highbrow humor]." ❋ Urbandictionaryisondrugs (2022)

Bill: Ted! I've fallen in love! ...with the word, "Shan't." My zeal and fondness towards this word is unparallelled. I have been left enamored to the point that I'm completely and utterly smitten by the word. But, alas I cannot use the word without sounding like a [pompous ass]. So my love appears to be in vein. I can't bear the pain, so I shan't any longer. *pretends to kill himself* Ted: That whole aside makes you sound like a pompous ass. Bill: That's the point, it's called a joke. Ted: How is that funny? Bill: It's [highbrow humor] and irony, perhaps it's [2deep4u] Ted: Maybe, you're just an unfunny faggot! ❋ Imthatawesome (2012)

Did you see that [highbrow] girl from Newnam, she was really [shagging] in the [smoking] area! ❋ Dipsoc (2021)

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