thinker

American  

[thing-ker] / ˈθɪŋ kər /

noun

1. a person who thinks, think, as in a specified way or manner.

   a slow thinker.

2. a person who has a well-developed faculty for thinking, think, as a philosopher, theorist, or scholar.

   the great thinkers.

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Other Word Forms

• nonthinker noun

Etymology

Origin of thinker

First recorded in 1400–50, thinker is from the late Middle English word thenkare. See think ¹, -er ¹

Example Sentences

We leave the show realizing that Viollet-le-Duc was one of the world’s great pictorial thinkers, whose graphic curiosity recognized no boundaries between geology, anatomy and architecture.

From The Wall Street Journal

By every indication, Victor had grown up alone in the forests of southern France and presented a case study for Enlightenment thinkers about the human being’s capacity to learn past a certain age.

From The Wall Street Journal

Another said she was an "extremely intelligent, innovative thinker".

From BBC

You raised them to be independent and critical thinkers so that they can navigate the world, whether they are on the right, the left or some other point on the ideological spectrum.

From MarketWatch

“The small minded of the world don’t like thinkers and doers, especially when they succeed.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• brain
• philosopher