highbrow (adj)

a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

highbrow, highbrowed (adj)

highly cultured or educated

"highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"

highbrow (Noun)

A cultured or learned person or thing.

highbrow (Adjective)

Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured.

Highbrow

Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, 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 literature, i.e. literary fiction and poetry; to films in the arthouse line; and to comedy that requires significant understanding of analogies or references to appreciate. The term highbrow is considered by some as discriminatory or overly selective

Highbrow

Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The term, first recorded in 1875, draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, which teaches that people with large foreheads are more intelligent.