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free-thinker

free-thinker is the alternative form of freethinker.

Meaning of freethinker

Noun

freethinker (plural freethinkers)

  1. A person who has formed their opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion.
  2. (Malaysia, Singapore) A person with no religion.
    • The report projected that in the Asia-Pacific region, the proportion of freethinkers is projected to decline from 21 per cent in 2010 to 17 per cent in 2050.2015 April 6, Siau Ming En, “Religiosity on rise in Asia-Pacific, proportion of freethinkers on decline”, in Today Online, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2015

Forms of free-thinker

pluralfree-thinkers

Questions about free-thinker

What is free-thinker the alternative form of?
Free-thinker is the alternative form of freethinker.

Words near free-thinker in the dictionary

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  4. free-tailed bat
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  10. free-throw lane
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Adapted from Wiktionary: free-thinker (page history and authors); freethinker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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