Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who philosophizes. Also spelled philosophiser.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who philosophizes.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who creates superficial arguments or offers meaningless solutions, instead of practical ones.
  • noun A philosopher, a person who writes or reasons in philosophy.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view

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Examples

  • Wells philosophizer-fighter in me that wants to topple free market capitalism and all of its corporate kids because they exploit workers and steal resources and pollute our Earth for profit.

    Sunday Art Chat II 2009

  • Fortunately for lovers of romance, genius cannot be wholly analyzed, even by the most adroit historical philosophizer or the most exacting champion of heredity.

    The Life of Napoleon I 01 Rose, John Holland 1902

  • Fortunately for lovers of romance, genius cannot be wholly analyzed, even by the most adroit historical philosophizer or the most exacting champion of heredity.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

  • The poet is not his best as a planned philosophizer; for in that role he becomes self-conscious; but is at his best when the wheel of his burning spirit, revolving as the planets do, throws off sparks or streams of fire.

    A Hero and Some Other Folks 1892

  • A lot and with sprinkles, since speakers include the lugubrious investor and hedge fund philosophizer Peter Thiel and skunk-at-a-Web-garden-party author Malcolm Gladwell.

    unknown title 2011

  • The "Transformers" bombshell-cum-uninhibited philosophizer also contemplates - reluctantly - what she would say to Megatron to keep him from destroying the world.

    Slublog 2009

  • You're neither bloodthirsty nor impotent, Neither a philosophizer nor a warlord.

    Chattablogs larien 2008

  • "Barras and Reubell, by dint of exciting the imagination of that poor little philosophizer La

    The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860

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