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Synonyms & Antonyms of ivory-tower
very learned or educated but inexperienced in practical matters
- a large public university that needs as its president not some ivory-tower intellectual but a skilled administrator
Synonyms for ivory-tower
- academic
- (also academical),
- ivory-towered,
- ivory-towerish
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The first known use of ivory-tower was in 1894
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