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highbrowed

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of highbrowed

much given to learning and thinking

highbrowed readers were not bothered by the novel's lack of a conventional plot

Synonyms of highbrowed

blue, cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, intellectual, intellectualist, intellectualistic, long-haired (or longhair), nerdish, nerdy

Words Related to highbrowed

cultivated, cultured

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, smart

Near Antonyms of highbrowed

uncultivated, uncultured

ignorant, illiterate, uneducated, unlettered, unread

dumb, foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), moronic, slow, stupid, unintelligent

benighted, unenlightened

Antonyms of highbrowed

anti-intellectual, lowbrow, nonintellectual, philistine

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