Highbrow vs. Lowbrow

Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated.

Example: ‘highbrow entertainment’;

A cultured or learned person or thing.

a person of intellectual or erudite tastes; an intellectual.

highly cultured or educated; pertaining to highly educated people; as, highbrow events such as the ballet or opera.

a person of intellectual or erudite tastes

highly cultured or educated;

Example: ‘highbrow events such as the ballet or opera’; ‘a highbrowed literary critic’;

Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture. The word draws its metonymy from the pseudoscience of phrenology, and was originally simply a physical descriptor.

Example: ‘highbrow’;

Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.

Example: ‘The Three Stooges are known for their lowbrow slapstick humor consisting of foolish action for the masses.’;

(countable) Someone or something of low education or culture.

An underground populist visual art movement that arose in the Los Angeles area in the late 1960s, inspired by comics, punk music, graffiti, etc.

a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits

characteristic of a person who is not cultivated or does not have intellectual tastes;

Example: ‘lowbrow tastes’;