THEORIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does theorist mean? 

• THEORIST (noun)
  The noun THEORIST has 1 sense:

1. someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)

  Familiarity information: THEORIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THEORIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

idealogue; theoretician; theoriser; theorist; theorizer

Hypernyms ("theorist" is a kind of...):

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Domain category:

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Derivation:

theory (a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena)

theory (a belief that can guide behavior)

theory (a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena)

 Context examples 

Theorists think stellar-mass black holes form from stars that are at least a few dozen times the mass of the sun.

(Elusive Middleweight Black Hole Found at Center of Giant Star Cluster, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

This discovery has planet formation theorists challenged to explain how such a world could have formed.

(Astronomers confounded by massive rocky world, NASA)

Now theorists will have to take up the challenge of explaining its formation.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)