All highbrow synonyms
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H h adj highbrow
- cerebral — If you describe someone or something as cerebral, you mean that they are intellectual rather than emotional.
- scholarly — of, like, or befitting a scholar: scholarly habits.
- wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- bookish — Someone who is bookish spends a lot of time reading serious books.
- brainy — Someone who is brainy is clever and good at learning.
- cultured — If you describe someone as cultured, you mean that they have good manners, are well educated, and know a lot about the arts.
- intelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
- learned — having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
- studious — disposed or given to diligent study: a studious boy.
- cultivated — If you describe someone as cultivated, you mean they are well educated and have good manners.
- intellective — having power to understand; intelligent; cognitive.
noun highbrow
- scholar — a learned or erudite person, especially one who has profound knowledge of a particular subject.
- brain — Your brain is the organ inside your head that controls your body's activities and enables you to think and to feel things such as heat and pain.
- sage — Alain René [a-lan ruh-ney] /aˈlɛ̃ rəˈneɪ/ (Show IPA), 1668–1747, French novelist and dramatist.
- egghead — an intellectual.
- savant — a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.
- genius — an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, music, etc.: the genius of Mozart. Synonyms: intelligence, ingenuity, wit; brains.
- academic — Academic is used to describe things that relate to the work done in schools, colleges, and universities, especially work which involves studying and reasoning rather than practical or technical skills.
- whiz — to make a humming, buzzing, or hissing sound, as an object passing swiftly through the air.
- philosopher — a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
- bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
- intelligentsia — Intellectuals or highly educated people as a group, especially when regarded as possessing culture and political influence.
- academician — An academician is a member of an academy, usually one which has been formed to improve or maintain standards in a particular field.
- thinker — French Le Penseur. a bronze statue (1879–89) by Rodin.
- intellectual — appealing to or engaging the intellect: intellectual pursuits.
- einstein — (photochemistry) One mole of photons, regardless of frequency, as used to measure irradiance.
- longhair — Sometimes Disparaging. an intellectual.