freethinker

A noun referring to a person who forms their own opinions and beliefs independently, especially about religion, rather than accepting established doctrines or authority.

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1. Independent thinker B2 formal

   A person who forms opinions based on reason and experience, especially rejecting traditional religious or political authority.

   • Voltaire was a famous freethinker who criticized organized religion.
   • She describes herself as a freethinker, questioning every assumed truth.
   • Freethinkers often value scientific evidence over dogma.
   • The club welcomed all freethinkers who sought open-minded discussion.

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   Synonymes: free spiritindividualistnonconformistrationalistskeptic

   Antonymes: conformistdogmatisttraditionalist

2. Belief in a non-intervening creator C1 formal

   A person who believes that God created the universe but does not intervene in its ongoing affairs, thus leaving it to its own natural laws.

   • He is a freethinker who holds that a higher power set the world in motion then stepped back.
   • Some freethinkers adopt a deistic worldview, believing in a creator without divine interference.
   • Her philosophy aligns with the idea that God abandoned the universe after creation, a view held by certain freethinkers.
   • The concept of a watchmaker God resonates with many freethinkers of the Enlightenment.

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   Synonymes: deist

• freethinkers plural form
• freethinkers' possessive plural form
• freethinker's possessive singular form