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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thinker
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
▪ They are not the deepest thinkers in the world, but neither are they doubtful or divided.
▪ Incredibly, with two weeks to make a bet, a few deep thinkers were shut out.
▪ Helen Gardner was not a deep thinker, but she saw certain things more clearly than many sharper minds.
▪ I told you he was a deep thinker.
▪ In front of a consequence so stark the deepest political thinkers recoiled.
good
▪ Our society values thinkers and is quite good at training thinkers.
▪ I knew that I wanted the kids to be good thinkers, to use their minds, to like school.
▪ But Darwin was a much better biologist and thinker than most of those who have come after him.
great
▪ Elie Wiesel and Elmo, a great thinker and a great tickle, will help President Clinton celebrate his second inauguration.
▪ That is what made him a great political thinker.
▪ Newton was not the first or the only great scientific thinker of the time.
▪ Bendiger. Great thinkers and great creators often make use of intuition.
▪ Such great thinkers as Kant and Schopenhauer have used the apparatus of Wissenschaft to demonstrate the limits of Wissenschaft.
marxist
▪ This reorientation of social thought, in new circumstances, has also influenced Marxist thinkers.
▪ These are quite explicit in the Communist Manifesto as well as many other writings of many Marxist thinkers.
original
▪ He was considered an original thinker, linking the old twelfth-century theological ideas with the new interests of the thirteenth.
▪ Great Groups are coordinated teams of original thinkers.
▪ Bearded and dignified, Aitken was an original thinker who remained outside the mainstream of scientific activity.
▪ Winnicott was a subtle and original thinker who did much to give new impetus and direction to Freudian psychology.
▪ Plant: Innovative, original thinker, creative.
political
▪ That is what made him a great political thinker.
▪ In front of a consequence so stark the deepest political thinkers recoiled.
▪ Many important political thinkers have produced their ideas outside the academy while being deeply involved in political struggles.
religious
▪ But most religious thinkers accommodated themselves fairly rapidly to the basic concept of evolution.
▪ In assessing the attitudes of religious thinkers to the natural sciences, discrimination is required in another respect.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
thinkers such as Sartre and Camus
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Barney was an advanced thinker, a believer in catharsis.
▪ Binh was a man of ideas, a thinker ahead of his times.
▪ But most religious thinkers accommodated themselves fairly rapidly to the basic concept of evolution.
▪ For others, the review simply proved that obesity researchers are yo-yo thinkers.
▪ No serious thinker can make a valid argument that to discriminate based on species is acceptable.
▪ Our society values thinkers and is quite good at training thinkers.
▪ The thinker enters the mind of the other as an observer not as an actor.
▪ You're one of the world's thinkers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thinker

Thinker \Think"er\, n. One who thinks; especially and chiefly, one who thinks in a particular manner; as, a close thinker; a deep thinker; a coherent thinker.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thinker

"one who has cultivated the powers of thought," mid-15c., agent noun from think (v.).

Wiktionary
thinker

n. 1 One who spends time thinking, contemplate or meditate. 2 An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.

WordNet
thinker
  1. n. an important intellectual; "the great minds of the 17th century" [syn: creative thinker, mind]

  2. someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)

Wikipedia
Thinker

Thinker or The Thinker may refer to:

  • The agent of thought
  • Intellectual, one who tries to use his or her intellect to work, study, reflect, speculate on, or ask and answer questions with regard to a variety of different ideas
  • The Thinker, Le Penseur in French, a bronze and marble sculpture by Auguste Rodin
  • Thinker (DC Comics) a DC Comics character who uses a telepathic helmet
  • Mad Thinker, a Marvel Comics character who uses robot minions
  • The "sitting woman" and the "thinker" are artifacts o Hamangia Culture

(5250-4550 BC)

Thinker (DC Comics)

The Thinker is the name of four supervillains in the DC Comics universe.

Usage examples of "thinker".

The Antitrinitarians were no more deists or free thinkers than were the Lutherans.

Now, in contrast to the Occidental thinker, who covets alternation because in his cold climate action is the means of enjoyment, the Hindu, in the languid East, where repose is the condition of enjoyment, conceives the highest blessedness to consist in exemption from every disturbance, in an unruffled unity excluding all changes.

Can HE be the large and patient thinker, the delicate humourist, the impassioned poet?

The fast-burning primitive thinkers descended from the African plains apes may have vanished completely or transcended their fleshy architecture before the solar Matrioshka brain is finished.

But as he matured as a thinker and an artist he realized it would be more valuable to test his ideas than merely to reiterate them, and to generate vivid negative images rather than advance positive propositions.

But the Mouser and Fafhrd merely exclaimed in mild, muted amazement at the stars and cautiously zigzagging across the Street of the Thinkers, called Atheist Avenue by moralists, continued up Plague Court until it forked.

Impartial looker-on sees clearer than the player Learn to obey, that later you may know how to command Man has nothing harder to endure than uncertainty Many creditors are so many allies One should give nothing up for lost excepting the dead Our thinkers are no heroes, and our heroes are no sages Overbusy friends are more damaging than intelligent enemies Prepare sorrow when we come into the world The experienced love to signify their superiority We quarrel with no one more readily than with the benefactor UARDA Volume 4.

If the leading theologians of Christendom, such as Anselm, Calvin, and Grotius, have so thoroughly repudiated the original Christian and patristic doctrine of the atonement, and built another doctrine upon their own uninspired speculations, why should our modern sects defer so slavishly to them, and, instead of freely investigating the subject for themselves from the first sources of Scripture and spiritual philosophy, timidly cling to the results reached by these biassed, morbid, and over sharp thinkers?

Smartest Company Selects the Most Creative Thinkers ISBN: 0316919160 Author: William Poundstone Title: How Would You Move Mount Fuji?

She had been the companion of Aesoe the Prime Predictor and Hoemei the Thinker Who Could Act.

Many thinkers have followed Foucault along these lines and successfully problematized the welfare state.

As lepidopterologist and artist, as chess problemist and thinker, Nabokov knows that there is no substitute for experiencing for oneself the shock and the joy of discovery.

We have often as good hearts, ay, and as much good nature, too, as the careful prosers who utter nothing but what is right, or the heavy thinkers who have too little fancy to say anything that is wrong.

It now becomes necessary to take a survey of the present theological movements, and to show in what relations the Rationalistic and evangelical thinkers stand to each other.

The only way to combat them is not by reviewing the opinions of departed thinkers and teachers, so much as by going directly back to the Bible itself, and looking at it with the aid of every new step in science.