Highbrow is a colloquial synonym for intellectual. It can apply, adjectivally to music, implying most of the classical music tradition and much of post-bebop jazz; to literature, i.e. literary fiction; to films in the arthouse line. It is also used as a noun. Synonyms (in ancient Greek syn συν = plus and onoma όνομα = name) are different words with similar or identical meanings. ... An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, and speculate on a variety of different ideas. ... Classical music is music considered classical, as sophisticated and refined, in a regional tradition. ... Bebop or bop is a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos and improvisation based on harmonic structure rather than melody. ... Jazz is a musical art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation. ... Literary fiction is a somewhat uneasy term that has come into common usage since around 1970, principally to distinguish serious fiction from the many types of genre fiction and popular fiction. ... Art film is a film style that began as a European reaction to the classical Hollywood style of film making. ...

Egghead, which was American English and is now obsolescent, is a pejorative form: anti-intellectual. Other terms formed by analogy are lowbrow, and middle-brow. In the slang of the United States, egghead was an anti-intellectual epithet, directed at people considered too out-of-touch with ordinary people and too lacking in realism, common sense, virility, etc. ... American English or U.S. English is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ... A word or phrase is pejorative or derogatory (sometimes misspelled perjorative) if it expresses contempt or disapproval; dyslogistic (noun: dyslogism) is used synonymously (antonyms: meliorative, eulogistic, noun eulogism). ... Anti-intellectualism is a term that in one sense describes a hostility towards, or mistrust of, intellectuals and intellectual pursuits. ... Highbrow is a colloquial synonym for intellectual. ... Highbrow is a colloquial synonym for intellectual. ...