reality challenged
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- adjective
- Offensive
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desconectado de la realidad
- To claim otherwise is to announce you are reality-challenged.
Examples
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The proposal to build a new airport in the middle of a national park seems a bit reality challenged.
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After reading her plan for the event, I realized she was quite reality challenged about what was feasible.
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Many of his ideas for improving the company are truly reality challenged and wouldn't work in practice.
Antonyms
How Realistic
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Although the parts 'reality' and 'challenge' are familiar, the adjective 'reality-challenged' relies on a non-literal use of 'challenged' meaning 'having difficulty with' or 'out of touch with', rather than its core sense 'to question'. This informal, euphemistic extension is partially inferable from the constituents but is metaphorical and idiomatic enough that a B1 learner who knows the words may not reliably derive the intended meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrase reality challenged comes from a playful image: imagine someone taking a test called reality and being challenged by it. That's why it jokingly means 'out of touch with reality' or 'having little awareness of what is practical'.