Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.
- a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob.
- the crestfish.
adjective
- Also high·browed. of, relating to, or characteristic of a highbrow.
noun
- a person of scholarly and erudite tastes
adjective Also: highbrowed
- appealing to highbrowshighbrow literature
“person of superior intellect and taste,” 1902, back-formation from high-browed (adj.), which is attested from 1891, from high (adj.) + brow (cf. also lowbrow).