<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person of superior intellectual interests and tastes.</li><li>a person with intellectual or cultural pretensions; intellectual snob.</li><li>the crestfish.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>also highbrowed.</li><li>of, relating to, or characteristic of a highbrow.</li><li>Synonyms: pseudointellectual, snobbish, bookish, cultured, scholarly, intellectual.</li></ul>