HIGHBROW Synonyms

• associated with academia or an academy

• an educator who works at a college or university

• hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result

• marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects

• involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct

• of or relating to the cerebrum or brain

• marked by refinement in taste and manners

• possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge)

• characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

• a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level

• raised above the ground

• of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style

• increased in amount or degree

• having or showing profound knowledge

• (used of persons and their behavior) cultivated and genteel

• freed from impurities by processing

• showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience

• precise to a fine degree

• suggesting taste, ease, and wealth

• characteristic of scholars or scholarship

• having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savoir-faire

• ahead in development; complex or intricate

• intellectually appealing

• a learned person; someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines

• someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs

• a student who holds a scholarship

• highly cultured or educated