THINKER Synonyms: 99 Similar and Opposite Words

thinker

noun

Definition of thinker

as in genius

a very smart person many of our most renowned thinkers gathered for the symposium

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as in mind

the part of a person that feels, thinks, perceives, wills, and especially reasons loves crossword puzzles, bridge, and other pastimes that makes her use the old thinker

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Recent Examples of thinker Tradition of separation The idea of separate spheres of spiritual and secular functions and authority was advanced by religious and secular thinkers to benefit both religion and the state. — Steven K. Green, The Conversation, 2 July 2026 The Deeper Shift Hiding Underneath The AI Debate Two thinkers, decades apart, asked the same question in different ways. — Dreen Yang, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026 Her generation was one of thinkers, politically committed to defining how individuals were to be shaped as citizens of a civilized nation. — Literary Hub, 1 July 2026 The program of participants brings together a cross-disciplinary group of artists and thinkers. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 June 2026 These Virginia aristocrats had been raised on the same Enlightenment thinkers—David Hume and Adam Smith, Montesquieu and Voltaire—as John Adams and Samuel Adams had. — James Traub, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026 While agile new companies can offer top AI thinkers massive equity upside, Hassabis’s confidence is rooted in Google’s structural advantages, including its unparalleled ecosystem of data, integrated hardware, and sheer computing power. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 23 June 2026 That is truly a pity because this brilliant thinker revolutionized both mathematics and physics. — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 23 June 2026 In recent years, writers, thinkers, and podcasters have advanced rival prescriptions for restoring the economic mobility that twentieth-century Americans came to see as their birthright. — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 22 June 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for thinker

Noun

Season 2 will once again explore the complicated friendship between pickpocketing genius Gabriel (Lucas Leach) and Penelope (Carmel Laniado), who is the daughter of Crookhaven School headmaster Caspian Lockett (Dougray Scott).

— Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 July 2026
There’s a lot of genius masterminds working on that right now for season two, and I have not been told one way or another.

— Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026

Definition of genius

Noun

Top of mind was the April 19 killing of 19 people in Negros Occidental, a province in the central Philippines.

— Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
The semiotics of the badge signal a sort of hive-mind curation, a global book group that has determined that this book, of all the millions of books, is worthy of promotion.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 8 July 2026

Definition of mind

Noun

The books about the life of a young wizard were adapted into a movie series that debuted in 2001 with Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.

— Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 1 July 2026
After climbing the Azkaban Escape Tower to the top, repel-style, young wizards-in-training, Clark and Emily Friscia, were ready to go home.

— Greg Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026

Definition of wizard

Noun

By triggering the release of a natural growth factor in the brain and modulating neural pathways associated with addiction and reward, ibogaine restores healthy dopamine function and reduces cravings, Barsuglia said.

— Gavin Escott, USA Today, 6 July 2026
The answer to us was to stay calm, use our brains and think our way through it.

— Paul Newman, New York Times, 5 July 2026

Definition of brain

Noun

Use the ax head of a garden mattock to cut through the roots at the base of the stump.

— Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 5 July 2026
The debate usually comes to a head in the summer, when high inland temperatures send bigger crowds to the beach, sometimes straining the mood of residents who live there.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026

Definition of head

Noun

Bobbi Queen, a former senior fashion editor at WWD who was known for her intelligence, wit and sense of style, died Thursday at her New York apartment at the age of 84.

— Lisa Lockwood, Footwear News, 6 July 2026
Autonomy with human oversight Artificial intelligence handles much of CobraJet’s flight through an autonomous autopilot supported by electro-optical and infrared cameras.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 July 2026