highbrowed

much given to learning and thinking highbrowed readers were not bothered by the novel's lack of a conventional plot Synonyms blue, cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired (or longhair), nerdish, nerdyRelated Words cultivated, cultured; middlebrow; erudite, learned, literate, polyhistoric, polymath (or polymathic), scholarly, well-read; academic (also academical), bookish, professorial; didactic, high-toned, hyperintellectual, pedantic; high-hat, snobbish, snobby, snooty; educated, schooled; brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, quick-witted, smartNear Antonyms uncultivated, uncultured; ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered, unread; dumb, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), moronic, slow, stupid, unintelligent; benighted, unenlightenedAntonyms anti-intellectual, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine