as in intellectual
much given to learning and thinking
finally, a TV series that appeals to a highbrow audience
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as in nerd
a person with strong intellectual interests
guests at her elegant dinner parties are a mix of the city's highbrows and captains of industry
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Recent Examples of highbrow
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
Just dumb enough to work, the haunted-house plot barrels through clichés and comes out the other side with an earnestly lowbrow evisceration of the fake highbrow.
—Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 16 July 2021
Tár is its highbrow counterpart, teasing and celebrating the same personal crisis and class issues.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2023
But in the pandemic’s wake, the chief human resources officer has morphed into a highbrow position, working with CEOs to drive attraction and retention among a myriad of other talent operations.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
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The roll call of films ranges from the highbrow to the decidedly grungy, the menu of a true movie fanatic.
—Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
Just dumb enough to work, the haunted-house plot barrels through clichés and comes out the other side with an earnestly lowbrow evisceration of the fake highbrow.
—Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 16 July 2021
Tár is its highbrow counterpart, teasing and celebrating the same personal crisis and class issues.
—Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2023
But in the pandemic’s wake, the chief human resources officer has morphed into a highbrow position, working with CEOs to drive attraction and retention among a myriad of other talent operations.
—Paolo Confino, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for highbrow
Adjective
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Iran has cultivated an astonishing intellectual and artistic depth with far fewer resources than many other nations.—
Rebecca Ruth Gould,
JSTOR Daily,
9 Apr. 2025
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Framed as a biography of Jensen Huang, the only CEO Nvidia has ever had, the book is also something more interesting and revealing: a window onto the intellectual, cultural, and economic ecosystem that has led to the emergence of superpowerful AI.—
James Surowiecki,
The Atlantic,
8 Apr. 2025
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She’s since bounced between crowd-pleasing mainstream fare (Avengers: Infinity War, Ghostbusters: Afterlife) and darker, more cerebral works (Widows, His Three Daughters).—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Read More: Scooby-Doo Live-Action Series Coming To Netflix According to the site, the new slayer is a more cerebral 16-year-old who's described as being more like Alyson Hanigan's Willow than Sarah Michelle Gellar's Buffy.—
Paul Du Quenoy,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 Mar. 2025
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Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research.—
Cyril Labbé,
The Conversation,
31 Jan. 2025
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Federal law prohibits universities from discussing individual students' disciplinary records, but the University takes these violations of our rules and scholarly norms seriously.—
Sarah Rumpf-Whitten,
Fox News,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Highbrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/highbrow. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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