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armchair

noun
/ˈɑː(ɹ)mtʃɛə(ɹ)/UK/ˈɑɹmt͡ʃɛɚ/US

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂er- Proto-Indo-European *h₂érmos Proto-Germanic *armaz Proto-West Germanic *arm Old English earm Middle English arm English arm Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Indo-European *ḱm̥-th₂der.? Proto-Hellenic *kətá Ancient Greek κᾰτᾰ́ (kătắ) Proto-Indo-European *sed-der. Proto-Indo-European *sedreh₂ Proto-Hellenic *hédrā Ancient Greek ἕδρᾱ (hédrā) Ancient Greek κᾰθέδρᾱ (kăthédrā)bor. Latin cathedrader. Old French chaierebor. Middle English chayere English chair English armchair From arm + chair.

  1. derived from καθέδρα
  2. derived from cathedra — “seat”
  3. derived from chaiere
  4. inherited from chayere
  5. formed as armchair — “arm + chair”

Definitions

  1. A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

    • [W]hen he [Pooh] suddenly saw Piglet sitting in his best arm-chair, he could only stand there rubbing his head and wondering whose house he was in.

  2. A position removed from that which one is

  3. Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active…

    Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.

    • armchair travels
    • These days I'm an armchair detective.
    • Armchair tourists who are used to travelling the globe with Google Earth can now use the same technology to crawl all over the masterpieces in one of the world's most famous galleries: the Prado.
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as…

      Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice.

      • He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog.
      • After the game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win.
      • If and when Ms. Cheney decides to marry, it will be interesting to see who offers best wishes, who offers armchair psychoanalysis, and who minds his own business.

    2. To create based on theory or general knowledge rather than data.

      • The very serious question is then raised as to whether reasonable and logical distractors can be "armchaired" or whether the practice of administering a question in open-end format to obtain logical distractors is a better procedure.
      • We think it makes sense to generate interventions empirically by finding out how couples deal with conflict, rather than by armchairing interventions.

    3. To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously

      To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; to reflect.

      • In past years, we administered this questionnaire and gave the results to the president who sat at a conference table with top management and armchaired some answers.

The neighborhood

Derived

armchair copy, armchair critic, armchair criticism, armchair general, armchair hawk, armchair linguistics, armchair psychologist, armchair psychology, armchair quarterback, armchair strategist, armchair tick, armchair traveller

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA