1.
thinker; intellectual
A person known for developing and expressing original ideas, especially about society, politics, or human life.
有名な思想家。
A famous thinker.
彼は時代を代表する思想家だ。
He is a thinker who represents his era.
その思想家の考えは後の社会に大きな影響を与えた。
That thinker's ideas had a great influence on later society.
The suffix 〜家 marks a specialist or practitioner. 思想家 stresses original thought rather than academic credentials.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 時代を代表する思想家: a thinker representative of an era
- 啓蒙思想家: an Enlightenment thinker
SIMILAR WORDS:
- 哲学者: philosopher — focuses on philosophy as a discipline
- 評論家: critic; commentator — comments on current affairs and culture