doer
nounUK /ˈduː.ə/ · US /ˈdu.ɚ/
Etymology From Middle English doer, doar, doere, from Old English dōere (“a doer; worker”), equivalent to do + -er.
1
Someone who does, performs, or executes; an active person, an agent.
- a doer of good
- By the wisdom proclaimed of old the doer must suffer.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. The Orestea: III. Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 205:
3 more examples
- The doer and the thinker No allowance for the other.1972, “Thick As A Brick”, Ian Anderson (lyrics), performed by Jethro Tull:
- Though his name was closely linked to that of Physiocrats, he was less an armchair intellectual like Quesnay or the elder Mirabeau than a doer in the vein of Bertin and Trudaine [...].2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 295:
- In schools, submission, not curiosity, was a highly valued virtue. Thinkers were out, doers were in.2008 March 25, Aleksandra Lojek-Magdziarz, The Guardian:
- Synonyms
- agent, doer, dynamo, gunner, self-starter
- Antonyms
- patient, victim, do-nothing, do-naught, faineant, idler, layabout, lollygagger, scrounger, slacker, slugabed
- Derived terms
- can-doer, doerless, doership, doer-upperer, evildoer, evil-doer, ill-doer, poor doer, rightdoer, welldoer, wrongdoer
- Related terms
- ball of fire, bundle of energy, bundle of nerves, busy beaver, eager beaver, go-getter, live wire, actively, proactive, active, lazy, maverick, worker
- Hypernyms
- person