thinker
/ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
noun
An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.
Example Sentences
- "The doer and the thinker No allowance for the other."
- "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.”"
- ""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."
Etymology
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”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: thinkere
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
- British English: /ˈθɪŋ.kə/