armchair

Meanings

Noun

• A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

Adjective

• 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.

Related

Broader meaning words

• chair
• furniture

Origin

• From arm + chair