- highbrow high·brow n , adj
- ['haɪˌbraʊ]
intellettualoide (m/f)
English-Italian dictionary. 2013.
highbrow high·brow n , adj
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high´brow´ism — high|brow «HY BROW», noun, adjective. Informal. –n. a person who cares, or claims to care, a great deal about knowledge and culture: »There was the theatre (so much better than the highbrows asserted) (Hugh Walpole). –adj. of or fit for a… … Useful english dictionary
high|brow — «HY BROW», noun, adjective. Informal. –n. a person who cares, or claims to care, a great deal about knowledge and culture: »There was the theatre (so much better than the highbrows asserted) (Hugh Walpole). –adj. of or fit for a highbrow;… … Useful english dictionary
highbrow — high|brow [ˈhaıbrau] adj 1.) a highbrow book, film etc is very serious and may be difficult to understand 2.) someone who is highbrow is interested in serious or complicated ideas and subjects = ↑intellectual >highbrow n →↑lowbrow, ↑middlebrow … Dictionary of contemporary English
highbrow — highbrowism, n. /huy brow /, n. 1. a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes. 2. a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob. 3. the crestfish. adj. 4. Also, highbrowed. of, pertaining to, or characteristic… … Universalium
highbrow — (n.) person of superior intellect and taste, 1902, back formation from high browed (adj.), which is attested from 1891, from HIGH (Cf. high) (adj.) + BROW (Cf. brow) (Cf. also LOWBROW (Cf. lowbrow)) … Etymology dictionary
middlebrow — 1911 (adj.), 1912 (n.), from MIDDLE (Cf. middle) + BROW (Cf. brow) (Cf. HIGHBROW (Cf. highbrow), LOWBROW (Cf. lowbrow)). [T]here is an alarmingly wide chasm, I might almost say a vacuum, between the high brow, who considers reading either as a… … Etymology dictionary
