Definisjon av highbrow

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Noun

highbrow - a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
intellectual, intellect a person who uses the mind creatively

Adjective

highbrow - highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"
highbrowed
intellectual appealing to or using the intellect; "satire is an intellectual weapon"; "intellectual workers engaged in creative literary or artistic or scientific labor"; "has tremendous intellectual sympathy for oppressed people"; "coldly intellectual"; "sort of the intellectual type"; "intellectual literature"
colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech
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Substantiv

highbrow - A cultured or learned person or thing.

Adjektiv

highbrow - Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured.

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  • Highbrow is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor. "Highbrow" can be applied to music, implying most of the classical music tradition and much of post-bebop jazz; to literature, i.e.

Adjektiv - Gradbøying

  • Positiv: highbrow
  • Komparativ: highbrower / more highbrow
  • Superlativ: highbrowest / most highbrow

Substantiv

  • Entall: highbrow
  • Flertall: highbrows

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