thinker

thinker
noun
ADJECTIVE
brilliant, great

Einstein was one of the world's greatest thinkers.

influential, leading
deep, profound, serious
big (esp. AmE)
clear, logical
quick
creative, original
critical, free, independent
contemporary, modern
19th-century, classical, medieval, etc.
strategic
political, religious, scientific, etc.
conservative, liberal, radical, etc.
Christian, feminist, western, etc.
PREPOSITION
thinker on

a leading thinker on constitutional law


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