deep thinker
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- noun
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pensador profundo
- As a deep thinker, she often pondered over complex philosophical questions during her quiet evenings.
- deep thinker, said
- a very deep thinker
But one thing that sticks out to me is clearly you're a deep thinker.
- But one thing that sticks out to me is clearly you're a deep thinker.
- How should people deal with having lots of self-awareness or being a deep thinker?
- But I do think I was always like that as a kid, you know, like I was always a real deep thinker.
- Well, for centuries, deep thinkers thought of earth, air, fire, and water as the fundamental elements.
- But to me, psychiatrists for time held the flag of we're the deep thinkers.
- The doctor, Vincent Felitti, was a San Diego internist, wonderful guy, deep thinker and and researcher.
- So you have people that are not big thinkers or deep thinkers, critical thinkers or voracious readers or learners.
- So it's just like the the really deep thinkers, they crush Twitter because you're just constantly sharing your deep thoughts.
Examples
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Reading also makes you a deep thinker as your knowledge and insights grow.
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Well, for centuries, deep thinkers thought of earth, air, fire, and water as the fundamental elements.
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And he was a deep thinker, I think, and looked at, looked at what really seemed to separate people.
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You seem to be a deep thinker.
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Clearly, he is a very deep thinker:
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He was a very deep thinker.
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I had no idea you were such a deep thinker, Sy.
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Well, you've always been a deep thinker.
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A century ago, some of the nation's deepest thinkers developed a sophisticated philosophical response to the same political and cultural problems.
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Tiarnan is a little philosopher and, in many ways, is proving to be a deep thinker, prone to pondering mysteries and cracking the enigmas of life.
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Synonyms
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3.8
A person who has deep ideas about important subjects
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A person who thinks deeply about ideas or problems
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A person who thinks deeply about basic questions of life
A person who thinks carefully for a long time about problems or ideas
A person who studies a subject very carefully to find new facts
A person who often thinks quietly and carefully about things
A person who thinks deeply about ideas or problems
A person who spends time thinking quietly and deeply
A person who spends time quietly thinking about life
A person who thinks about the deeper meaning of things
A person known for deep thinking and ideas
How Thoughtful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'deep' (profound) + 'thinker' (one who thinks), yielding 'someone who thinks profoundly.' This adjective+noun pattern is straightforward and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Deep thinker comes from a simple picture: the word deep makes us imagine deep water, and a thinker is someone who looks below the surface of an idea. So a deep thinker is a person who 'dives' into problems and thinks very seriously about them.