theorist

English

Etymology

From theory +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈθɪəɹɪst/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈθiːəɹəst/, /ˈθɪɹəst/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈθɪəɹəst/, /ˈθiːəɹəst/

Noun

theorist (plural theorists)

1. Someone who constructs theories, especially in the arts or sciences.
   • 2012 January, Michael Riordan, “Tackling Infinity”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 30 April 2013, page 86:

     Some of the most beautiful and thus appealing physical theories, including quantum electrodynamics and quantum gravity, have been dogged for decades by infinities that erupt when theorists try to prod their calculations into new domains.

Synonyms

• theoretician (less common)
• theorizer / theoriser

Derived terms

• A-theorist
• B-theorist
• chaos theorist
• coincidence theorist
• conspiracy theorist
• game theorist
• gap theorist
• graph theorist
• group theorist
• number theorist
• representation theorist
• ring theorist

 

Translations

someone who constructs theories

• Arabic: مُنَظِّر m (munaẓẓir)
• Basque: teorialari
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 理論家／理论家 (lei⁵ leon⁶ gaa¹)

  Mandarin: 理論家／理论家 (zh) (lǐlùnjiā)

• Czech: teoretik m, teoretička f
• Danish: teoretiker c
• Dutch: theoreticus (nl) m
• Finnish: teoreetikko (fi)
• French: théoricien (fr) m, théoricienne (fr) f
• German: Theoretiker (de) m, Theoretikerin (de) f
• Ido: teoriisto
• Irish: teoiricí m
• Italian: teorico (it) m
• Kazakh: теорияшыл (teoriäşyl)
• Korean: 이론가(理論家) (iron'ga), (North Korea) 리론가 (riron'ga)
• Marathi: सैद्धांतिक m (saiddhāntik), उपपत्तिकार m (upapattikār)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: teoretiker m

  Nynorsk: teoretikar m

• Persian: تئوریسین (fa) (te'orisian)
• Polish: teoretyk (pl) m, teoretyczka f
• Portuguese: teorista m or f, teórico (pt) m
• Romanian: teoretician (ro) m, teoreticiană (ro) f
• Russian: теоре́тик (ru) m (teorétik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: теоретичар m, теоретичарка f

  Roman: teoretičar (sh) m, teoretičarka (sh) f

• Slovak: teoretik m
• Slovene: teoretik m
• Spanish: teórico (es) m, teórica (es) f
• Swedish: teoretiker (sv) c
• Ukrainian: теоре́тик m (teorétyk)

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