thinker
Syllables: think·er/ˈθɪŋ.kə//ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
thinker noun: one who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
Noun
thinker (plural thinkers)
- One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
- The doer and the thinker
No allowance for the other.1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull
- The doer and the thinker
- An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
- 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...2020 December 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- The brain; the mind.
- "Well, I tried to do like you and grandfather say; don't use my thinker, use imagination."2011, Arthur Kornhaber, Rosie's Miracle: A Novel, page 271
- A poser; a conundrum that requires some thinking.
- HANK: The NRA is a Washington D.C. based organization. Are you telling me you support Washington D.C.?
DALE: That's a thinker.1997, "How to Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying" (King of the Hill TV series, season 2 episode 1)
- HANK: The NRA is a Washington D.C. based organization. Are you telling me you support Washington D.C.?
thinker meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
thinker in Hindi
- intellectual
- विचारक vicārak
thinker in Tamil
- சிந்தனையாளர், கருத்தாளர், சிந்தனாவாதி
thinker in Marathi
- one who spends time thinking
- विचारक vicārak
- intellectual
- विचारवंत vicārvanta
thinker in Urdu
- فلسفی, مفکر
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- thinker in Bengali
- চিন্তাবিদ
- thinker in Telugu
- ఆలోచనాపరుడు, ఆలోచకుడు
- thinker in Malayalam
- ചിന്തകൻ, തത്ത്വചിന്തകൻ, തത്ത്വശാസ്ത്രജ്ഞൻ, ചിന്താശീലൻ
- thinker in Kannada
- ಚಿಂತಕ, ಚಿಂತನಶೀಲ
- thinker in Punjabi
- ਚਿੰਤਕ, ਚਿੰਤਨਕਾਰ
- thinker in Gujarati
- હકીમ hakīm
- thinker in Odia
- ଚିନ୍ତାକର୍ତ୍ତା
- thinker in Sanskrit
- मन्तृ mantṛ́, कवि kaví
- thinker in Nepali
- चिन्तक, विचारक
- thinker in Pashto
- متفکر motafaker, مفکر mofaker
- thinker in Tagalog
- palaisip
- thinker in Arabic
- مُفَكِّر mufakkir
- thinker in Malay
- pemikir, ahli fikir, cendekiawan, cendekiawati
- thinker in Indonesian
- pemikir
- thinker in Persian
- متفکر motafakker, اندیشمند andišmand, مفکر mofakker
- thinker in Thai
- นักคิด nák-kít
- thinker in Vietnamese
- nhà tư tưởng
Examples of thinker in a sentence
- Are you more of a feeler or more of a thinker?
- Some thinkers take the view that, beginning with the work of Descartes, epistemology began to replace metaphysics as the most important area of philosophy.
- The thinker imprudently dismissed the ontological premises of the argument without engaging in dialectical scrutiny, thereby undermining the epistemic integrity of the discourse.
Forms of thinker
| plural | thinkers |
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Origin of thinker
From Middle English thinkere, equivalent to think + -er. Compare West Frisian tinker (“thinker”), Dutch denker (“thinker”), German Denker (“thinker”), Danish tænker (“thinker”), Swedish tänkare (“thinker”).
Words formed from thinker
Phrases with thinker
Words that rhyme with thinker
Questions about thinker
- What does thinker mean?
- Thinker means one who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
- What is thinker in Hindi?
- Thinker in Hindi is विचारक (vicārak). See Thinker meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is thinker?
- Thinker is a noun.
- How do you pronounce thinker?
- Thinker is pronounced /ˈθɪŋ.kə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of thinker?
- The plural of thinker is thinkers.
Words near thinker in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: thinker (page history and authors); thinker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thinker (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thinker (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); thinker (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); thinker (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); thinker (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); thinker (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); હકીમ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); thinker (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); कवि (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); thinker (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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