freethinker

English

Alternative forms

• free-thinker

Etymology

free +‎ thinker, since 1692.

Noun

freethinker (plural freethinkers)

1. A person who has formed their opinions using reason and rational enquiry; somebody who has rejected dogma, especially with regard to religion.

Coordinate terms

• (religionists) religionist; Ahmadi,‎ Baha'i,‎ Buddhist,‎ Christian,‎ deist,‎ Druid,‎ Eckist,‎ heathen,‎ Hindu,‎ Jain,‎ Jedi,‎ Jew,‎ Mormon,‎ Mormonist,‎ Muslim,‎ Odinist,‎ pagan,‎ Pastafarian,‎ Rastafarian,‎ Raëlian,‎ Shintoist,‎ Sikh,‎ Taoist,‎ Unitarian Universalist,‎ Yazidi,‎ Wiccan,‎ Zoroastrian ^{(Category: en:Religion) [edit]}

Derived terms

• freethinking
• freethought

Descendants

• Danish: fritænker (calque)
• French: libre-penseur (calque)
• German: Freidenker (calque)
  • Russian: вольноду́м (volʹnodúm), вольноду́мец (volʹnodúmec) (calque)

Translations

person who has formed their opinions using reason and rational enquiry

• Armenian: ազատամիտ (hy) (azatamit)
• Danish: fritænker c
• Esperanto: liberpensulo
• Finnish: vapaa-ajattelija
• French: libre-penseur (fr) m
• German: Freidenker (de) m, Freidenkerin f
• Hungarian: szabadgondolkodó (hu)

• Kazakh: еркін ойлы (erkin oylı)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fritenker m

  Nynorsk: fritenkar m, fritenkjar m

• Polish: wolnomyśliciel (pl) m
• Romanian: liber cugetător m liber cugetătoare f
• Russian: вольнодумец (ru) m (volʹnodumec), свободомыслящий (ru) m (svobodomysljaščij)