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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

cerebral, eggheaded, geeky, highbrow, intellectual, intellectualistic, nerdish, nerdy

Words Related to highbrowed

cultivated, cultured

erudite, learned, literate, scholarly, well-read

academic (also academical), bookish, professorial

didactic, high-toned, hyperintellectual, pedantic

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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