armchair

Plural: armchairs

Noun

• chair with a support on each side for arms
• A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.
• A position removed from that which one is
• pl. -S a chair with armrests

Adj

• Remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement.
• Unqualified or uninformed but yet giving advice, especially on technical issues, such as law, architecture, medicine, military theory, or sports; relating to such advice.

Verb

• To create based on theory or general knowledge rather than data.
• To theorize based on analysis of data that was gathered previously; to reflect.

Examples

• "After the game, the armchair quarterbacks talked about what they would have done differently to win."
• "armchair travels"
• "He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal blog."
• "These days I'm an armchair detective."

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