highbrow: Meaning and Definition of

high•brow

Pronunciation: (hī'brou"), [key]
— n.
  1. a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
  2. a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob.
  3. the crestfish.
—adj.
  1. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a highbrow.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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