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theorist

[ thee-er-ist, theer- ]

noun

  1. a person who theorizes.
  2. a person who deals mainly with the theory of a subject:

    a theorist in medical research.



ˈtheorist

/ ˈθɪəˌrɪst /

noun

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


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Word History and Origins

Origin of theorist1

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

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Example Sentences

But the author of The Beauty Myth has become a nonsense-garbling conspiracy theorist.

In Pi, a numbers theorist named Max Cohen decides to put a power drill through his own brain.

Oliver Stone might be the most vocal JFK conspiracy theorist in Hollywood, but he's not the only one.

Despite being a grown-up conspiracy theorist, it seems that Charlie couldn't resist running home to daddy with his wacky beliefs.

The couple divorced back in America, and the man his mother remarried, Harry Walterhouse, was a veteran-turned-military theorist.

The Archduke Charles was a fine strategic theorist, in his age second only to Napoleon.

The mysterious traveler, Votan, is once more made to do service for the theorist here.

There lives, even now, a sublime theorist, who professes to have made feminine physiology his peculiar study.

And yet this theorist in the mills demanded working conditions that would let us wear shirts.

As a theorist, Sir John Hawkins says, his book is equal in value to any now extant in any language.

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Origin of Species, Thetheorize