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theorist

[ thee-er-ist, theer- ]

/ ˈθi ər ɪst, ˈθɪər- /

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noun

a person who theorizes.

a person who deals mainly with the theory of a subject: a theorist in medical research.

Origin of theorist

First recorded in 1585–95; theor(y) + -ist

Words nearby theorist

theoretic, theoretical, theoretical arithmetic, theoretician, theoretics, theorist, theorize, theory, theory of equations, theory of everything, theory of games

Example sentences from the Web for theorist

What the French theorist Roland Barthes can teach us about escaping loneliness.

Can We Live Together, Roland Barthes? |Austen Rosenfeld |December 19, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
Who rules East Europe,” says Kaplan (quoting the words of an Edwardian theorist), “rules the world.

The End of American Dominance in Robert Kaplan’s ‘The Revenge of Geography’ |Ian Morris |September 14, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
In the practical conduct of life he was no theorist, no amateur.

The Friendly Club and Other Portraits |Francis Parsons
The theorist disdains experience—the empiric rejects principle.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII. |Various

But Machiavelli was the theorist of humanity in politics, not the observer only.

Machiavelli, Volume I |Niccol Machiavelli
And then we are engulfed in a controversy as stale, flat and unprofitable as that between the "theorist" and the "practical man."

Supply and Demand |Hubert D. Henderson
It effects also certain desirable objects, though not such as our theorist has in view.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 403, May, 1849 |Various

British Dictionary definitions for theorist

theorist

/ (ˈθɪəˌrɪst) /

noun

the originator of a theory; a person who is concerned with theory; a theoretician