highbrow
very intellectual (book, film, play)
TRANSLATION
highbrow = hochintellektuell, anspruchsvoll --- GOOGLE INDEX highbrow: approximately 1,000,000 Google hits
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Since being selected by Mr. Putin in 2012, Mr. Tolstoy, 52, has emerged as the more conciliatory, HIGHBROW and Western-friendly face of Kremlin cultural policy.
(New York Times)
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A HIGHBROW is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
(English humorist and novelist Alan Patrick Herbert)
(New York Times)
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A HIGHBROW is the kind of person who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
(English humorist and novelist Alan Patrick Herbert)
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highbrow
adjective
- of, relating to or being highly cultured or intellectual
noun
- one who possesses or affects a high degree of culture or learning
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Franz Gall, an 18th century German anatomist and physiologist, is credited with the development of phrenology, the study of the shape and protuberances of the skull, based on the belief that they reveal a person's character and mental capacity.
One of his theories was the controversial and now discredited belief that a high forehead corresponds to a bigger brain and thus more intelligence.
This eventually led to the expression "highbrow" (brow refers to the eyebrows) for an intellectual person. The adjective developed at a later point. The term "lowbrow" then followed to describe people with low foreheads, implying lesser intelligence.
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SYNONYMS
bookish, brainy, cerebral, cultivated, erudite, intellectual, learned, scholarly
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"The analysis is a bit highbrow but the conclusion is very clear."
adjective
- of, relating to or being highly cultured or intellectual
noun
- one who possesses or affects a high degree of culture or learning
(American Heritage Dictionary)
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Franz Gall, an 18th century German anatomist and physiologist, is credited with the development of phrenology, the study of the shape and protuberances of the skull, based on the belief that they reveal a person's character and mental capacity.
One of his theories was the controversial and now discredited belief that a high forehead corresponds to a bigger brain and thus more intelligence.
This eventually led to the expression "highbrow" (brow refers to the eyebrows) for an intellectual person. The adjective developed at a later point. The term "lowbrow" then followed to describe people with low foreheads, implying lesser intelligence.
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SYNONYMS
bookish, brainy, cerebral, cultivated, erudite, intellectual, learned, scholarly
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"The analysis is a bit highbrow but the conclusion is very clear."
