The difference between Armchair and Closet

When used as nouns, armchair means a chair with supports for the arms or elbows, whereas closet means any private area, particularly bowers in the open air.

When used as adjectives, armchair means remote from actual involvement, including a person retired from previously active involvement, whereas closet means private.

Closet is also verb with the meaning: to shut away for private discussion.

check bellow for the other definitions of Armchair and Closet

  1. Armchair as a noun:

    A chair with supports for the arms or elbows.

  1. Armchair as an adjective (figuratively):

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

    Examples:

    "These days I'm an armchair detective."

  2. Armchair as an adjective (figuratively):

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

    Examples:

    "He's just an armchair lawyer who thinks he knows a lot about the law because he reads a legal [[blog]] on the internet."

    "After the American football game, the armchair [[quarterback]]s talked about what they would have done differently to win, if they had been star athletes instead of out-of-shape old men."

  1. Closet as a noun (obsolete):

    Any private area, particularly bowers in the open air.

  2. Closet as a noun (now, rare):

    Any private or inner room, particularly: A private room used by women to groom and dress themselves. A private room used for prayer or other devotions. A place of (usually fanciful) contemplation and theorizing. The private residence or private council chamber of a monarch.

  3. Closet as a noun (obsolete):

    A pew or side-chapel reserved for a monarch or other feudal lord.

  4. Closet as a noun (obsolete):

    A private cabinet, particularly: One used to store valuables. One used to store curiosities. One used to store food or other household supplies: a cupboard. A secret or hiding place, particularly the hiding place in English idioms such as and .

    Examples:

    "The closet can be a scary place for a gay teenager."

    "He's so far in the closet, he can w The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe see Narnia."

  5. Closet as a noun (now, chiefly, Scotland, Ireland):

    Any small room or side-room, particularly: One intended for storing clothes or bedclothes. or later water closet: a room containing a toilet.

  6. Closet as a noun (heraldry):

    An ordinary similar to a bar but half as broad.

  7. Closet as a noun (Scotland, obsolete):

    A sewer.

  1. Closet as an adjective (obsolete):

    Private.

  2. Closet as an adjective:

    Secret, especially with reference to gay people who are ; closeted.

    Examples:

    "He's a [[closet case closet case]]."

  1. Closet as a verb (transitive):

    To shut away for private discussion.

    Examples:

    "The ambassador has been closeted with the prime minister all afternoon. We're all worried what will be announced when they exit."

  2. Closet as a verb (transitive):

    To put into a private place for a secret interview or interrogation.

  3. Closet as a verb (transitive):

    To shut up in, or as in, a closet for concealment or confinement.

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