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UK
/hˈaɪbɹaʊ/
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[ US /ˈhaɪˌbɹaʊ/ ]
[ US /ˈhaɪˌbɹaʊ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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highly cultured or educated
highbrow events such as the ballet or opera
a highbrowed literary critic
NOUN
- a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
How To Use highbrow In A Sentence
- It's a delightful piece of absurdist nonsense, a sitcom designed to offend highbrow admirers of minimalist dance.
- He pointed out that the book review is a news service, a digest of the latest news about books - not publicity for publishers, nor a rarified forum for highbrow esoterica.
- The tone won't appeal to highbrows, but this is the closest thing to a second Tocqueville we are likely to find.
- Philippe Garrel is also one of those figures: a director with fanatic followers in the most highbrow circles of film criticism.
- It's got an on-air team led not only by Chow, as the host, but highbrow art experts such as gorgon auctioneer Simon de Pury, who will mentor the 14 artists competing for a cash prize of $100,000 and a solo show at the prestigious Brooklyn Museum of Art. Judges and guest judges include New York gallery owner The latest from teenvogue.com
- Why not take the arts into cinemas by turning highbrow shows into movies? Times, Sunday Times
- Everyone with a safe £500 a year turned highbrow and began training himself in taedium vitae. Inside the Whale
- He is likely to be more upbeat, less highbrow, but nonetheless less tub-thumping than most home affairs spokesmen when he speaks to delegates at 3pm today.
- Hard-boiled Dreams of the World, winner of the cerebral, intellectually appealing, mentally engrossing and reasonably highbrowed Thinking Blogger Award! Thinking Blogger Awards
- Broad, rude, crude and offensive were just a few of the criticisms levelled at this scatological sitcom, but the show had the perfect response to such highbrow jibes: ratings.