theorist

English

Etymology

theory +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈθɪəɹɪst/
• IPA^(key): /ˈθiːəɹəst/, /ˈθɪɹəst/
• 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, 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

Translations

someone who constructs theories

• Arabic: مُنَظِّر m (munaẓẓir)
• Basque: teorialari
• Czech: teoretik m
• 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
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: teoretiker m

  Nynorsk: teoretikar m

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Persian: تئوریسین (fa) (teorisian)
• 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

• Spanish: teórico (es) m, teórica (es) f
• Swedish: teoretiker (sv) c

Anagrams

• Theriots, orthites, otterish, shortite, thorites