单词 | thinker |
释义 | thinker (once / 780 pages) n A thinker is just what it sounds like — a person who does a lot of thinking. If you're a thinker, it may take you a while to make an important decision. You can use the noun thinker when you talk about a smart, scholarly person who's known for being an intellectual, or to describe someone who contemplates every choice at great length. Serious students are thinkers, and so are little kids who mull things over carefully, such as deciding which kind of doughnut to choose. Perhaps the most famous thinker is Auguste Rodin's bronze statue "The Thinker," which shows a man sitting, chin in hand, deep in thought. WORD FAMILYthinker: thinkers+/forethought: forethoughtful, forethoughts/forethoughtful: forethoughtfully, unforethoughtful/rethink: rethinking, rethinks, rethought/think: rethink, thinkable, thinker, thinking, thinks, thought/thinkable: thinkably, unthinkable/thinking: thinkingly, thinkings, unthinking/thought: forethought, thoughtful, thoughtless, thoughts, unthought/thoughtful: thoughtfully, thoughtfulness, unthoughtful/thoughtfulness: thoughtfulnesses/thoughtless: thoughtlessly, thoughtlessness/thoughtlessness: thoughtlessnesses/unthinkable: unthinkably/unthinking: unthinkingly/unthoughtful: unthoughtfully, unthoughtfulness USAGE EXAMPLESKiffin also showed Sports Illustrated a personality assessment that profiled him as a conceptual thinker. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) This book is interesting because it offers a chance to witness this influential thinker grapple with more offbeat questions. New York Times(Dec 19, 2016) Jay Rosen, a leading media thinker, sees big trouble ahead. Washington Post(Dec 18, 2016) 1n someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision) Hypo|Hyper brain-worker, brainworker someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems classifiera person who creates classifications divergent thinkera thinker who moves away from the problem as stated and often has novel ideas and solutions excogitatora thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly muller, muser, ponderer, ruminatora reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation arranger, organiser, organizera person who brings order and organization to an enterprise philosophiser, philosophizersomeone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view convergent thinker, problem solver, solvera thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution ratiocinator, reasonersomeone who reasons logically rocket scientista clever thinker speculatorsomeone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts analogistsomeone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy casuist, sophistsomeone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious coordinatorsomeone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously orderer, systematiser, systematist, systematizer, systemiser, systemizeran organizer who puts things in order intellect, intellectual a person who uses the mind creatively 2n an important intellectual Syn|Hyper creative thinker, mind intellect, intellectual a person who uses the mind creatively |
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