Definition of Theorist

1. Noun. Someone who theorizes (especially in science or art).


Definition of Theorist

1. n. One who forms theories; one given to theory and speculation; a speculatist.

Definition of Theorist

1. Noun. someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences ¹

2. Noun. an expert of some theory (v.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Theorist

1. one that theorizes [n -S] - See also: theorizes

Lexicographical Neighbors of Theorist

theoreticians
theoretick
theoretics
theoric
theorical
theorically
theorics
theories
theorisation
theorisations
theorise
theorised
theoriser
theorises
theorising
theorist (current term)
theorists
theorizable
theorization
theorizations
theorize
theorized
theorizer
theorizers
theorizes
theorizing
theorizings
theory
theory-based
theory-laden

Literary usage of Theorist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"... I.—GEORGE MEREDITH AS A theorist. IN the essays evoked (hiring the last thirty years by George Meredith's books, attention has been called either to his ..."

2. The Theological and Literary Journal (1851)
"But when a theorist seizes at such living words as these, and puts them into his vice, and straightens or crooks them into the dogma, that man is blamable ..."

3. Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome (1919)
"A theorist OF REVOLUTION February 13th. AFTER yesterday's talk with a ... The revolutionary theorist was quite incapable of even considering his own or any ..."

4. Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome (1919)
"A theorist OF REVOLUTION February 13th. AFTER yesterday's talk with a ... The revolutionary theorist was quite incapable of even considering his own or any ..."

5. Early Tudor Poetry, 1485-1547 by John Milton Berdan (1920)
"In other words, that is what we call blank verse. -^ Ascham is the theorist of the movement, Grimald is the exponent. ..."

6. Early Tudor Poetry, 1485-1547 by John Milton Berdan (1920)
"Ascham is the theorist of the movement, Grimald is the exponent. Possibly it was for this reason that the Archdeacon of Peterborough persuaded him to go to ..."

7. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1858)
"... preserved a Moderately Consolidated Government—Was a theorist and a Projector—Was an able Executive Man—The Qualities which conspired to produce this—He ..."

8. Chess Strategetics: Illustrated. Military Art and Science Adapted to the by Franklin Knowles Young (1900)
"On the other hand, tLe mere theorist usually lacks all ... The theorist thinks the true use of knowledge is to bring about an vlr.nl condition, ..."

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