Usually means: Intellectual, cultured taste or preference.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word highbrow:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. highbrow: Merriam-Webster
  2. highbrow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. highbrow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. highbrow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. highbrow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Highbrow, highbrow: Wordnik
  7. highbrow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. highbrow: Wiktionary
  9. highbrow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. highbrow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. highbrow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. highbrow: Dictionary.com
  13. highbrow (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. highbrow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Highbrow (disambiguation), Highbrow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. highbrow: Rhymezone
  17. highbrow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. highbrow: FreeDictionary.org
  19. highbrow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. highbrow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. highbrow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. highbrow: Netlingo

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. highbrow, highbrow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. highbrow: Urban Dictionary

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▸ adjective:  (sometimes derogatory) Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated.
▸ noun:  (sometimes derogatory) A cultured or learned person or thing.

Similar:
intellectual, highborn, superintellectual, high-minded, Haut, supercerebral, superb, highfaluting, hypersmart, rarefied, more...

Opposite:
lowbrow, vulgar, common

Types:
intellectual, cerebral, academic, erudite, learned, pedantic, more...

Phrases:
arrogant highbrow, wannabe highbrow, highbrow people, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, young, real, very, militant, intellectual, disgusting, anti, pretty, literary

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    burgundy,     emerald,     charcoal,     gold,     ivory, more...


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Similar:
intellectual, highborn, superintellectual, high-minded, Haut, supercerebral, superb, highfaluting, hypersmart, rarefied, more...

Opposite:
lowbrow, vulgar, common

Types:
intellectual, cerebral, academic, erudite, learned, pedantic, more...

Phrases:
arrogant highbrow, wannabe highbrow, highbrow people, more...

Adjectives:
more, little, young, real, very, militant, intellectual, disgusting, anti, pretty, literary

Colors:
    burgundy,     emerald,     charcoal,     gold,     ivory, more...



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