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ivory-towered

ivory-towered adjective: overly academic, divorced from reality and practical matters.

Adjective

ivory-towered (not comparable)

  1. Overly academic, divorced from reality and practical matters.

Origin of ivory-towered

From ivory tower + -ed.

Questions about ivory-towered

What does ivory-towered mean?
Ivory-towered means overly academic, divorced from reality and practical matters.
What part of speech is ivory-towered?
Ivory-towered is an adjective.

Words near ivory-towered in the dictionary

  1. ivory-billed woodpeckers
  2. ivory-bills
  3. ivory-pounder
  4. ivory-thumper
  5. ivory-tower
  6. ivory-towered
  7. ivory-towerism
  8. ivory-towerist
  9. ivory-towerists
  10. ivory-white
  11. ivory-whites

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