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ivory-toweradjective very learned or educated but inexperienced in practical mattersa large public university that needs as its president not some ivory-tower intellectual but a skilled administrator academic(also academical), ivory-towered, ivory-towerish cerebral, eggheaded, highbrow, intellectual astute, canny, clear-sighted, hardheaded, hard-nosed, knowing, sharp, sharp-witted, shrewd, tough-minded in 1894 |