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单词 highbrow
释义
highbrowhigh‧brow /ˈhaɪbraʊ/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • He picked up a book that was lying on the floor. It was something highbrow - Kafka, I think.
  • Readers of tabloid newspapers are less interested in politics and less likely to tune into highbrow news programmes.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But seriously, you say, how highbrow can tequila really get?
  • The highbrow national monthly published his musings in the spring.
  • The usual metropolitan and highbrow bias can be discerned.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorserious books, ideas etc that are intended for intelligent people
· She likes reading those trendy intellectual magazines about politics and society.· There seemed to be remarkably few cultural or intellectual events for the undergraduates at the university.
a book, article, or other piece of writing that is scholarly deals with a serious subject and is written in a very detailed way after a lot of study: · The organization is dedicated to scholarly research on life in the next millennium.· Fullington discovered 11 new species of land snails and wrote more than 90 scholarly articles and books.
intended for very intelligent and educated people and therefore not interesting for a lot of people: · He picked up a book that was lying on the floor. It was something highbrow - Kafka, I think.· Readers of tabloid newspapers are less interested in politics and less likely to tune into highbrow news programmes.
something such as an idea or statement that is profound shows a lot of knowledge and understanding of a serious subject: · The book contains a great many profound insights into human behaviour.· Further research has resulted in a more profound appreciation of the problem.· Burton's lecture was amusing as well as being profound.
dealing with a subject in an intelligent and sincere way rather than in an amusing way: · I must admit I find the serious newspapers rather boring.· At school we had to read works by serious writers like Shakespeare and Milton.
1a highbrow book, film etc is very serious and may be difficult to understand2someone who is highbrow is interested in serious or complicated ideas and subjects SYN  intellectualhighbrow noun [countable] lowbrow, middlebrow
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