| ̷ ̷( ̷ ̷) ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective
1. : marked by failure or refusal to face or cope with reality and practical matters : nonrealistic , impractical , dreamy , escapist
her thinking is ivory-tower — J.F.Dinneen
were this the only result, the work would indeed have been ivory-tower — A.A.Twichell
the ivory-tower point of view of certain academicians and librarians — John Farrar
ivory-tower seclusion of the scholar — Sergius Yakobson
2. : preoccupied with what is wholly or nearly wholly speculative or theoretical or abstract or esoteric
ivory-tower writers and artists