ivory-tower·ist
| \ -rə̇st \
variants:
or ivory-towerite \
-ˌrīt
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plural -s
Definition of ivory-towerist
: one marked by ivory-towerism
ignore the insipidities of the ivory-towerites and try to build a new literature— William Small
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