Thinker
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈθɪŋ.kəː/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Thinker is a noun meaning One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
Meaning
One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
More Meanings
- An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
- (slang) The brain; the mind.
- (slang) A poser; a conundrum that requires some thinking.
Example Sentences
The doer and the thinker No allowance for the other.
"Well, I tried to do like you and grandfather say; don't use my thinker, use imagination."
HANK: The NRA is a Washington D.C. based organization. Are you telling me you support Washington D.C.? DALE: That's a thinker.
From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.”
Word Forms
- thinkers
Synonyms for thinker
Depending on context, synonyms include mind.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include mind, surmiser, intellectual, muse, theorist, theoretician.
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