English - Turkish
Definition of high-brow in English Turkish dictionary
- highbrow
- aydın
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- ukalâ
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- entelektüel
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- aydın (kimse)
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- (Konuşma Dili) kültürlü
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- (Konuşma Dili) okumuş
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- fikir adamı
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- entel
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- Yüksek kaş
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- Entelektüel geçinen, gösterişçi, kurumlu kimse
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- (isim) ukalâ
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- s., i. entelektüel
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English - English
Definition of high-brow in English English dictionary
- person of intellectual tastes, pretentious person; pretentious
- Used 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 much of post-bebop jazz; to literature, i.e. literary fiction; to films in the arthouse line; and to comedy that requires significant understanding of analogies or references to appreciate
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- Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured
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- A cultured or learned person or thing
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- a person of intellectual or erudite tastes
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- highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic"
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- {i} intellectual, cultured person, refined person; pseudointellectual, snob
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- {s} having a highly intellectual quality; highly cultured or refined; snobbish, haughty
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- a person of intellectual or erudite tastes highly cultured or educated; "highbrow events such as the ballet or opera"; "a highbrowed literary critic
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- If you say that a book or discussion is highbrow, you mean that it is intellectual, academic, and is often difficult to understand. He presents his own highbrow literary programme. lowbrow
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- If you describe someone as highbrow, you mean that they are interested in serious subjects of a very intellectual nature, especially when these are difficult to understand. Highbrow critics sniff that the programme was `too sophisticated' to appeal to most viewers. lowbrow