MIDDLEBROWISM Antonyms

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

• characterized by full comprehension of the problem involved

• the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals

• profound scholarly knowledge

• a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

• the result of improving something

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

• the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste

• uplifting enlightenment

• a deliberately invalid argument displaying ingenuity in reasoning in the hope of deceiving someone

• being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject

• the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment

• falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies

• a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

• the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze

• The use or development of the intellect.

• The doctrine that knowledge is derived from pure reason.

• The use of mental attributes as a criterion or value (intellectual racism).